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O-T Law Dogs - help - Regarding billing for subpeonaed documents

Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:40 pm
Posted by Dlawnboy
Member since May 2008
719 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:40 pm
Small/medium family business is subpoenaed to provide documents for a divorce/child custody case. Business is a complete 3rd party and has no interest in the case. Business is providing 200+ pages of documents that took hours to pull and copy. Can business bill the requesting attorney for time and a per page cost?? If so, how much?

ETA - around or about three fifty is too much.


TIA
This post was edited on 2/8/19 at 2:47 pm
Posted by danfraz
San Antonio TX
Member since Apr 2008
24550 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:41 pm to
Tree fiddy per page




And you owe me tree fiddy for this post
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37730 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:42 pm to
Law don't go around here
Posted by Saints475
Member since Nov 2018
77 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:44 pm to
Ask them to cover it- they will likely add it to their billing hours from the client. It's a cost that they require
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
32401 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:45 pm to
I would assume yes, that's the way it works in healthcare when records are subpoenaed.
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
19681 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:46 pm to
Yeah just charge the requesting entity.

Usually like $0.50 per page.
Posted by Cump11b
Member since Sep 2018
2026 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:46 pm to
quote:

Can business bill the requesting attorney for time and a per page cost??


Why not... don't you have to pay a fee for getting a copy of medical records? I'm not an attorney but I would just send an invoice with a labor and materials breakdown.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65556 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:46 pm to
quote:

Dlawnboy
Y’all hiring?

Asking for a Messican who posts here and is regularly unemployed (and unemployable).

Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:47 pm to
Yes. Charge them a couple hundred bucks. They'll pay.
Posted by Dlawnboy
Member since May 2008
719 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:48 pm to
quote:

Y’all hiring?


Grass getting greener every day.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65556 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 2:51 pm to
Send him/her/it an application please-

owlvania69@rice.edu

TIA
Posted by Nolaryan
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2016
67 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 3:11 pm to
Yes. Send an email/fax/letter back saying it is x per page and do they accept those copying charges. They’ll say yes, add it to the file cost, and you’re covered.
Posted by JDPndahizzy
JDP
Member since Nov 2013
6426 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 3:23 pm to
La. R.S. 40:1299.96 limits the amount to:
$1 per page up to 25 pages, .50 cents for pages 26-350 and .25 cents per page after 350 pages...

Hope this helps.
Posted by BIGJLAW
Member since Mar 2013
8419 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 3:48 pm to
Yes and what has already been said
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 2/8/19 at 4:42 pm to
quote:

La. R.S. 40:1299.96


This statute only applies to medical records. Assuming this guy isn't running a healthcare business, the amount he can charge is limited only by what these dirty, stinking ambulance chasers will pay.
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