Greyhound refuses to pay hospital bills for injured passengers
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Posted 10:25PM on Tuesday, January 8, 2002
CHATTANOGA, TENNESSEE - Greyhound isn't paying hospital bills for passengers injured when a driver's throat was slashed October 3rd on Interstate 24 near Manchester. <br>
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Greyhound contends the company also is a victim of the criminal attack on the driver. <br>
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The Dallas-based company has advised hospital administrators and passengers who didn't have health insurance to seek help from the Tennessee Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. <br>
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Hospital administrators say unpaid bills total more than 450-thousand dollars from the bus crash. Six passengers, including the attacker, died in the crash. A seventh died later at a hospital and all the other 34 on board were injured. <br>
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Bus passengers can apply to the state fund for up to 30-thousand dollars each to pay hospital and other related expenses.