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wombat2u2004
02-23-2010, 04:46 PM
BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY.

This is a NOT a true story and was NOT First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.

Charlotte, North Carolina .

A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.

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 a 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.)

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, 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 a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the 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.

And a thankyou to aTailOf2Kitties for providing that information :)

aTailOf2Kitties
02-23-2010, 04:58 PM
Snopes says.... BOGUS!

RICHARD
02-23-2010, 05:14 PM
LOL, that sounds like a stupid lawyer anyway.

I wonder if you can sue a dry cleaner for a zillion dollars because they lost your suit pants?;)

wombat2u2004
02-23-2010, 06:06 PM
Snopes says.... BOGUS!

Edited :D

Catty1
02-23-2010, 06:06 PM
Maybe bogus...but I bet this could happen in other lawsuits LOL. Great story, no matter what!

wombat2u2004
02-23-2010, 06:07 PM
LOL, that sounds like a stupid lawyer anyway.

I wonder if you can sue a dry cleaner for a zillion dollars because they lost your suit pants?;)

You might be able to sue those garbage bandits who wake you up too early in the morning. :p

phesina
02-23-2010, 08:25 PM
Whether it's true or not is beside the point.. The story is still hilarious!

Thanks, Wom. I'd seen that before but not in a long time, so I didn't remember how it finally came out. Brought another chuckle when I learned again.

lvpets2002
02-24-2010, 12:42 PM
:p Oh my my this is just too funny.. I would not dought for a minute that a lawyer would try this.. :D

Cataholic
02-24-2010, 12:47 PM
That is as old as the hills...and, not the best one I have seen. Funny, people seem to send lawyer jokes to me often. :p

Randi
02-24-2010, 12:49 PM
I thought I'd seen this before.... and yes, this was one of John's (Jonza) last posts here. :( Still funny. :D

http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=70630&highlight=series+small+fires

wombat2u2004
02-24-2010, 03:27 PM
:p Oh my my this is just too funny.. I would not dought for a minute that a lawyer would try this.. :D

Hee hee.....some of them try all kinds of stuff. Like the snake oil salesman, if there's a buck in it....go for it. :D