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Frivolous Lawsuit

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 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 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."

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 news arrived on: 08/26/2008

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09-03-2008 17:18

Tim Gatewood wrote:

Frivilous Lawsuit

If any of the folks who pass along this nonsense would bother to google urban legends and then go to the sites that come up, put this story's headline in, you will see that not only is a a hoax, it is a long-standing one. The story even lacks the necessary details to confirm it, but, even logic would tell you that no insurance company would insure cigars against fire and no lawyer would be so stupid as to think he could get away with such a suit. It did not happen folks, so you will have to vent your spleen about lawyers with some other joke.

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08-30-2008 21:56

Valdis wrote:

This is a story not a joke!

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08-30-2008 16:12

Lisa wrote:

frivolous lawsuit

If any of you were Brad Paisley fans, you would know that he sang a song about this very thing on his Mud on the Tires album called "The Cigar Song" I bet that's where this joke came from!

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08-30-2008 15:11

I wrote:

Frivolous Lawsuit

I thought this was hilarious. We think we are so smart!

John U.K. - Money is not the root of all evil. The love of it is. That scripture from James always seems to be misquoted.

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08-30-2008 08:21

Donna wrote:

joke about cigars

I believe that the country singer, brad paisley, put these words to music on one of his albums. I felt it was laughable.

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