A
Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare,
very expensive cigars, insured them against... get this... FIRE.
Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous
cigars, AND having yet to make a single premium payment on the
policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company.
In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars in
"a series of small fires."
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason
that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion. The
man sued... and won. In delivering his ruling, the judge stated
that since the man held a policy from the company in which it
had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed
that it would insure the cigars against fire without defining
what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," it was
obligated to compensate the insured for his loss.
Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the
insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man
$15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires."
There's more to the story below
I
don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want
to achieve immortality through not dying.
-
Woody Allen
"the rest of the
story..."
After the man cashed his
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 as evidence against him, the
man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars
and sentenced to 24 consecutive 1 month terms.
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Center for Astrophysics believed he discovered the largest diamond
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