[FRIDAY] Burnt Ashes

[Shane Mingins <sh...@assureinternational.com>]

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


Shane Mingins
Analyst Programmer
Assure NZ Ltd
Ph 644 494 2522



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Re: [FRIDAY] Burnt Ashes

[Erik Price <ep...@ptc.com>]

Shane Mingins wrote:

> 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. 


I'm no lover of the Empire, but that is awesome.  Got what he deserved.



Erik



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Re: [FRIDAY] Burnt Ashes

[Joel Wickard <jw...@litriusgroup.com>]

>
>
>This is a true story and was the 1st place winner in the recent Criminal
>Lawyers Award Contest. ONLY IN AMERICA
>
>
>Shane Mingins
>Analyst Programmer
>Assure NZ Ltd
>Ph 644 494 2522
>
>
>  
>
Do you have any supporting documentation that it's a true story, I 
looked for newspaper articles, but all I came up with was that this 
story was published on numerous "lawyer jokes" sites, and they said 
nothing about it bieng a true story.


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