Friday, September 18, 2009

The Ingenuity of Lawyers

I just love American creativity!!

This took place in 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, 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!

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 cigars that perished 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 true story won First Place in last year's Criminal Lawyers Award contest

ONLY IN AMERICA ....NO WONDER THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS WE'RE NUTS


It is only in America that this can occur.
Sent by Prakash Bhartia

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