Re: FRI: Lawyers. Gotta luv'em!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Aug 23 11:44:38 2005
>From 1997 yet LOL.
art
At Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
>
>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.
>
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art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
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