Re: FRI: Lawyers. Gotta luv'em!
From: doctorjoe@aol.com
Tue Aug 23 11:07:40 2005
Cool. I'll pass that on to the "source," a law student (obviously, a future "liar").
Joe P.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anna Meenan, MD <annam@uic.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:03:08 -0500
Subject: Re: FRI: Lawyers. Gotta luv'em!
They gotcha, Joe.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp
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Anna Meenan, MD
At Tue, 23 Aug 2005, doctorjoe@aol.com wrote:
>
> THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE, AND PROBABLY THE
> CENTURY.
>
> A Woodlands, TX. Lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars,
> and 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! (Stay with me.)
>
> 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 a 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".
>
> 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 fine.
>
> This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal
> Lawyers Award Contest.
>
>Joe P.
