Insurer Sends Unexplained $5,000 Debt to Collections With No Audit Documentation
A commercial insurance customer had their policy canceled due to the agency's own administrative failures, then received a collections call for nearly $5,000 in alleged audit debt with no prior invoice, billing statement, or audit results ever provided. Both the local agency and corporate support decline to investigate or explain the balance, leaving the customer with no path to verify or dispute the charge.
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