Questão jurídica principal
Whether an authentic postal receipt for a money transfer constitutes liberating proof of payment of health-insurance premiums
Decisão extraída
No. In postal transfer cases, the debtor bears the risk that the amount never reaches the insurer; an authentic receipt alone does not prove discharge of the debt.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court reaffirmed settled case law that money debts are portable and that the risk between payment order and account crediting remains with the payer. The additional account statements made it sufficiently probable that no credit occurred, and La Poste's later explanations did not alter that result.