The history of the American lawyer who outsmarted himself

In the US city Charlotte lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars. Then I insure them, including fire. Within a month, a lawyer smoked cigars, after he finished his last cigar, a lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated that the cigars were lost as a result of a series of small fires. The insurance company refused to pay, since the cause of damage to cigars was obvious: they consumed





The lawyer won.

The court ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was rather strange, however, the judge referred to the fact that the lawyer has concluded a contract with a company that guarantees that cigars are insured, and the requirement to pay guaranteed in the case of an insured event. Given that the insurance contract was not a clear definition of the fire, the court imposed a duty on the insurance company to pay the required amount. Rather than continue to litigate further and spend huge amounts of money, the insurance company paid $ 15 000 for the loss of a lawyer of rare cigars lost in fires. Once a lawyer check the insurance company traded on the money he was accused of 24 arson and arrested by. He was charged with the organization of 24 arson of insured property. and his own testimony and statements of all the 24 cases of "mini-fire" in the previous process have been used in court against the very same lawyer: a lawyer has been accused of deliberately setting fire to the property of the insured and was sentenced to prison for 24 months and a fine of 24 000 US dollars . This story was recognized as the best in the competition among the stories of lawyers in criminal proceedings in the United States two years ago .: fishki.net
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