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

 

This is hilarious...


damned lawyers

 

That's incredible

 

That is bloody funny !!!!!!

 

LMAO


That's brilliant.

 

I notice the only people who's responded so far (not counting Luke) are all non-Americans. I guess Americans love lawyers.

 

*Most* lawyers are the cause of the non-stop lawsuits over here. It's all about the $$$.

 

Lawyers

They are the bane of The Architect's existence.
I remember in school they pretty much told all of us we would be sued at some poin tin our careers, regardless of fault.

How quaint.

 

Don't you just love the lawyers

Outside of the States they are not such a bad bunch really though

 

That is one funny story. I'm sure the folks involved had a good laugh over it.

I had a close friend growing up. We were similar in many ways... Scientifically curious, clever, rambunctious... Then he up and decided to go to law school. We've barely talked since.

James, guys, do you folks get "The Practice" televised outside the states?