This Is The Best Lawyer Story Of The Year, Decade, And Probably The Century.

[Dragonlady]

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!

 

 

(Stay with me.)

 

 

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 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 fine.

 

 

This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal

Lawyers Award Contest.

 

 

ONLY IN AMERICA!

 

 

NO WONDER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES THINK WE'RE NUTS.

[AndrewOW]

NO WONDER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES THINK WE'RE NUTS.

 

 

No wonder we ALL think they're nuts!

[MrHanky]

LOL, you can never be sure about whether these things happened or not. But it is funny none the less

[Gaz Walker]

Funny, but ultimately not true

 

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp

[Bob]

Heard that one 2 or 3 years back Still clever, mind you.

 

:edit: Doh, too slow. Wow, 11 year old rumour though!

[neil tt]

That is so good, shame its not real:d

[hoff]

Good story, true or not:)

[markjodrell]

Thats a brill tale, pity it was too good to be true though

[Charlotte]

Good story, true or not:)

 

Literally a good fictional story?

[Havard]

I'm off to insure my bath against flooding......LOL!!

 

H.

[marbleapple]

Its a bit like the bloke in the UK who changes his name to Inlan Renenu to try cash cheques from the Inland Revenue

 

- As for the lawyer, not only would have have had the 24k fine, but he would likely have been banned from working as a lawyer

[Bob]

Its a bit like the bloke in the UK who changes his name to Inlan Renenu to try cash cheques from the Inland Revenue

 

- As for the lawyer, not only would have have had the 24k fine, but he would likely have been banned from working as a lawyer

 

Wasn't there a tax man in the US that changed his name to Ian Robert Steven, or something like that? Then he just altered the cheques to read I R Stevens. Probably another hoax though.

[Chiefgroover]

Old story, gets changed about a little but very very funny never the less!

[Tom]

I'm off to insure my bath against flooding......LOL!!

 

H.