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Best Lawyer Story of the Year, Decade and probably the Century. |
Fatal Rocko Willis
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From: Kentucky
|  Posted: 2008-02-29 06:39
Charlotte, North Carolina.
A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, and 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 cheque, 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 $24,000 fine.
This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.
ONLY IN AMERICA!
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Ulven Skyblade
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From: Timbo400
| Posted: 2008-02-29 06:49
Can't stop laughing.
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Kanman
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| Posted: 2008-02-29 08:59
My roommate has a country song on his computer that IS this story, word for word. I think it might not have really happened.
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Smartin
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From: Michigan
| Posted: 2008-02-29 09:01
That's funny. Always seems to be a constant battle between insurance companies, and insurance holders. who sues who, and what everyone can get away with.
This made me laugh and helped me start my morning out on the right foot.
-Smartin-
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Panduh
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| Posted: 2008-02-29 15:53
woah, brilliant.
my god, thats just...plain awesome.
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Xpli$it
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| Posted: 2008-02-29 17:42
this is quite awesome.
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Grimith
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| Posted: 2008-02-29 19:02
Cool story, truth or not. However, it seems a bit hasty to proclaim this the best story of the Year, Decade, and probably the Century. Not unless you were referring to the past year, past decade, and probably the past century. 
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From: happy land
| Posted: 2008-02-29 19:21
rolf that is a funny story
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Tommas [ USF HunnyBunny ]
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From: Norway
| Posted: 2008-02-29 19:35
lol evryone sues eachother in usa..crazy country!
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Sir Night Runner
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| Posted: 2008-02-29 19:39
LOL, No wait the computer screen hurts my eyes I'M SUEWING!
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Shath
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| Posted: 2008-03-01 03:21
lmfao thats frickin funny i cudnt stop laughin at how pissed the insurance company and then the lawer wer lol
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