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BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR


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BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR

 

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 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 cheque, 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 !

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Well... every reference I find to this story says it's not true.. which is a great shame.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/cigars.html

 

I was forwarded this from the office of one of Canada's biggest law firms. Just shows you can't trust them.

If guess it really is the best STORY by a lawyer just like the title said. :unsure:

 

Way to take away a smile from us Hagar, couldn't let us live the lie and finely think a lawyer gets his just dues. ;)

 

A defending attorney was cross examining a coroner. The attorney asked, "Before you signed the death certificate had you taken the man's pulse?" The coroner said, "No." The attorney then asked, "Did you listen for a heartbeat?" "No." "Did you check for breathing?" "No." "So when you signed the death certificate you had not taken any steps to make sure the man was dead, had you?" The coroner, tired of the browbeating said: "Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But for all I know, he could be out there practicing law somewhere."
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This is very funny, but initially wouldn't the insurance company have pointed out that ye,s they were subjected to a series of small fires but since he had done this intentionally they wouldn't pay out? Isn't this the same as say, Insuring your car deliberately crashing it and then claiming?

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