Up In Smoke

A lawyer purchased a box of expensive cigars and insured them against fire, amongst other things. After a month, and having smoked all the cigars, the lawyer filed a claim on the insurance policy stating that the cigars had been lost in a series of 'small fires'. The Insurance Company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the cigars had been smoked in the normal fashion.

The lawyer sued and won, and although the Judge agreed that the case was frivolous, he said that according to the letter of the law, the Insurance Company HAD agreed to insure the cigars and that he (the Judge) did not want to define what was an unacceptable fire. Rather than go through a lengthy and costly law suit, the Insurance Company paid out $15000.

HERE'S THE RUB......

After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the Insurance Company sued him for arson ! With his own insurance claim and testimony, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 2 years in jail and fined $24000 !

From the magazine of Pip N'Jay Church, Bristol