Able Is Involved in an Automobile Accident and Is Injured

question 65

Multiple Choice

Able is involved in an automobile accident and is injured. While he is unconscious, the police call an ambulance which takes him to a hospital. Able is treated at the hospital and released a day later. The hospital sends him a bill for $4,500, which Able refuses to pay, claiming it is too high and he never consented to the treatment because he was unconscious. Able:

• A) has entered into a unilateral contract with the hospital and therefore will have to pay the bill.
• B) will have to pay the hospital, because this is a quasi-contractual agreement.
• C) has entered into an implied in fact contract with the hospital.
• D) and the hospital have entered into a bilateral contract, the terms of which require that he pay the bill.

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Definitions:

Principle Amount

The original sum of money borrowed in a loan or put into an investment.

Time

A continuous, measurable quantity in which events occur in a sequence from the past through the present to the future.

Simple Interest

Interest computed on the original sum of a loan or deposit, not including the effects of compounding throughout the duration.

Simplification

The process of reducing a mathematical expression or equation to its simplest form.