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Sorry to jump on your post and for long winded description but in a similar situation. During Storm Arwen a large conifer blown from neighbours land onto our property writing off motorhome , wrecking garage roof and damaging car parked in garage. I contacted tree surgeon at neighbours request (I have it in a text message) but he agreed to the tree surgeon carrying out the work (verbally) witnessed by me, hubby and tree surgeon. He texted me to say his insurance had agreed to immediate remedial action. In my innocence I thought my insurance would sort damage to my property and he would sort tree but oh no. Tree had to have bracing scaffold built under it and with lifting equipment etc it was quite a significant bill. Afterwards he tells me that his insurance company have said we should split the cost 50 50 (have this in writing) He then tells tree surgeon to send the bill to me as I had commissioned his service (I don't think so!!) So I get a bill for half of the work (as agreed with neighbour) from the tree surgeon and pay my half of the bill. Other half is sent to neighbour. 4 months later the neighbour has still not paid the tree surgeon for his half and the poor man is quite distraught. He has texted, emailed, and written but has been totally ignored. so my question to you experts is has anything similar happened to you and what did you do about it?