The patient was a young black man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital on the South Side with a knife wound in his chest from a barroom brawl. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams--a founder of Provident, which had opened two years previously as the city's first interracial hospital--knew Cornish was bleeding to death.
Sometimes its your bank that allows charges to go through on an expired card if they determine it to be a recurring service charge. This is why it's often not sufficient to request a new card number if you are trying to stop a company from continuing to charge you for a recurring service.
When you open a new credit account, whether you activate the new card or not, it's still classified as an open account in the eyes of the credit card issuer and credit reporting agencies.The credit card issuer can legally report the card to the credit bureaus each month.However, if you aren't using the card, there may be nothing to report. Whether you activate the card or not, a hard inquiry will show up on your credit report.f you receive a new card to replace an expired card linked to an established account, you'll need to close the account if you don't want to activate the card. If you don't plan on using the card, the credit card issuer can close the account due to inactivity.