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.
Some of the ways card companies charge fees will change due to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act. Under the new law, for example, you will be given 45-days advance notice before a significant account change, such as a rate and/or fee increase.