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Insurer denies dad's claim for rain damage
Kirk Gossett sought $400 from the Arizona School Risk Retention Trust for a sports coat he says was ruined while he watched his son graduate from Gilbert High School and for the cost of flying his daughter from Utah for the ceremony, The Arizona Republic reports.
Insurance adjuster Thomas Mullen, in a letter rejecting the claim, said that the high school made a "good faith effort" to hold the ceremony and to do the best by its graduates and their families. While some schools in the area moved graduation indoors because of the unexpected, and, for Arizona, unusual, rain, Gilbert officials decided to go ahead with an outdoor ceremony.
"The fact that it rained and caused some disruption and an abbreviated ceremony is unfortunate but does not create a liability," Mullen said.
Assistant Gilbert Superintendent Clyde Dangerfield said the rain was the first he has seen on graduation day in 15 years in the town. He said Gossett's claim was a first too.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 08/07/2008
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08-22-2008 01:56
Storm wrote:
Funny how a guy who can afford a sports coat expensive enough to sue over can't afford a TV with a weather station...
08-12-2008 08:55
Dina wrote:
Is this the same fellow who insured his cigars against fire?
08-12-2008 08:09
Ian wrote:
Insurer denies dad's claim for rain damage
It is also monsoon season in Arizona at the moment.
So one would assume there is a possibility that it may rain!
So one would assume there is a possibility that it may rain!
08-11-2008 10:10
Earl wrote:
It doesn't surprise me that somebody too stupid to get out of the rain would file a lawsuit for getting wet.
08-11-2008 09:59
Izzy in Minneapolis wrote:
And the fact that the insurance claim was denied...
... shouldn't be a surprise to this Darwinian error--according to Darwin's theory of natural selection, this moron shouldn't have made it, let alone procreated.
The fact that he has makes me want to sue Darwin for false advertising.
The fact that he has makes me want to sue Darwin for false advertising.
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