THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR

A Charlotte, NC 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 lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000.00 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!!! Using his own insurance claim and with the testimony form the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentended to 24 months in jail and a $24,000.00 fine.

This is a true story and was the First place winner in the recent
Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.

and it's awesome

Oh, and he thought he was soooo smart!

Sounds like a lot of work for some free cigars anyway.

NDRU said:

Well it isn't so much about getting free cigars as it is setting president in cases.

sorry chickadee....it's not true...see link
http://www.snopes.com/cri...garson.asp

PurpleRein said:

i hate when that happens.

still funny though, X!

PurpleRein said:

bah. and to think my BOSS, an attorney, forwarded that on to me

XxAxX said:

show him what a good researcher you are!! I won't take the credit..you do it. snopes is great for all those stupid chain email things people send you

PurpleRein said:

i'll tackle him with it the moment he walks in!!!

not cool to make fun of attorneys, some of us here are attorneys. But I must admit that story is hilarious.

Still waiting on matt to come post on here and

FabiOne said:

Shut up, it's totally cool to make fun of attorneys.

hey I'm a lawyer (although I'm not currently practicing) so no big surprise that I don't think it's cool to make fun of attorneys. You know what? lawyers are people too, with feelings, not all lawyers are arse holes.

FabiOne said:

Um, yeah, "feelings", whatever. Tell it to the judge, esquire.

FabiOne said:

Gosh, I feel awful for them!

HereToRockYourWorld said: