Wow!
This took place in 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, 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! Â (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, 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 to the lawyer for  his loss of the cigars that perished in the ‘fires’.
NOW Â Â 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 true story  won First Place in last year’s Criminal Lawyers Award  contest.
ONLY IN Â Â AMERICA!