lawyer vs. insurance company

[jerseygirl]

Lawyering and Insurance companies at their finest!

This is the best lawyer story of the year, decade and probably

the century...

A Charlotte,NC,lawyer purchased a box of very rare and

expensive cigars,then insured them against fire among other things.

Within a month,having smoked his entire stockpile of these great

cigars and without yet having made even his

first premium payment on the policy,the lawyer filed claim against

the insurance company.

In his claim,the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series

of small fires."  The insurance company refused to pay,citing

the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars

in the normal fashion.

The lawyer sued....and won!

In delivering the ruling,the judge agreed with the

insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The Judge stated

nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy

from the company in which it had warranted

that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that

it would insure them against fire, without defining what is

considered to be unacceptable fire,and was

obligated to pay the claim.

Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process,the

insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000.00 to the

lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."

 

NOW FOR THE BEST PART...

After the lawyer cashed the check,the insurance company had

him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!!! With his own

insurance claim and testimony from the previous case

being used against him, the lawyer was

convicted of intentionally burning his insured property

and was sentenced to 24 months

in jail and a $24,000.00

fine.

This is a true story and was the 1st place winner in the

recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.

ONLY IN AMERICA

[zipp51]

Too clever for his own good lol. w00t

[piaqt]

Why don't sharks bite lawyers?

Professional courtesy.