Paphos People

This is funny , I thought it might get better reading here than in the joke section .It does typify
the peculiarities of the legal mechanism and how things can be turned around .

Hope no one minds .





Charlotte , North Carolina ,

A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and
expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.

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!



(Stay with me.)





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, 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 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.

ONLY IN AMERICA!

NO WONDER THE WORLD THINKS THE USA IS NUTS!

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Mike.

Live each day as if it's your last ,
cos one day it will be .

This is the trouble with the affluence of our society. Two thirds of the people in this world have to concentrate on where to get their next meal. People like us have too much and it leads to time wasting and greed.

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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Oh well , I owe everyone an apology .

Apparently this is a myth , I mailed a friend in the USA who works in IT for a law firm and
asked him about it , he pointed me to a web site that specialises in these sort of stories and
de-bunks lots of this type of thing , it covers all forms of from animals to cars .

Heres the link if anyones interested .

http://www.snopes.com

_________________
Mike.

Live each day as if it's your last ,
cos one day it will be .

Great story though mike also so surreal

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Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably
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Yeah. And just a matter of time before it happens for real.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

That's not a bad idea actually, I'm going to try & insure my swimming pool against water damage & the next time it rains, I can claim against flooding