cigars

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Just got this from local paper apparently a true story-
North Carolina lawyer who insured a box of expensive cigars against amongst other things fire. Before even paying for the first premium, he'd smoked the lot and then filed a claim because the cigars had been lost "in a series of small fires".
The insurers refused to pay; the lawyer sued and won.
Though the Judge agreed that the claim was frivolous, the insurance company had failed to make it clear what it deemed "unacceptable fire" and was ordered to pay him &#3615,000.
After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurers had him arrested on 24 counts of arson-with his previous claim used against him. He was convicted of intentionally burning insured property and, hoist? by his own exploding cigars, is serving 24 months imprisonment.