A local insurance agent, received an invoice for a large sum of money via email. The agent and his company did not recognise the writer of the email or the company they supposedly owed, but the email asked that the invoice be paid by the next day. The following day,...
In these technology enhanced times, there are some people who still cannot afford to read and write and hence resort to the age-old system of fingerprints. This incident is reflective of such people. A company had entered into an arrangement with a claimant who was illiterate. The agreement stated that...
Although there are cases of animals being instructed to attack another person, this is not one of those. A man was attacked by a hawk when the bird of prey swooped down on him, causing him to fall. Now this man claimed that the hawk was owned and controlled...
A school mascot was dressed in a chicken suit and was performing as usual at one of the basketball games when he fell down and sustained injuries. However, he proceeded to file a lawsuit against the university claiming negligence. Upon investigation, the university officials found that the young man was...
Can one airline trip cause multiple claims from various people? It sure can. A claimant first filed for tripping over a man’s legs while walking down the aisle. However, this one fall turned into a saga of injuries. The claimant fell on a boy who was standing in the aisle,...
In what may seem like a unique case, a priest filed a claim against his church after he fell into a grave in the course of a burial. He allegedly suffered a broken arm, shoulder injury and psyche injury after he slipped on a carpet that was covering the mud...
A woman climbed to the roof of her condo in an attempt to rescue her cat. This particular portion of roof was below her balcony. As soon as she stepped on, her weight caused the roof to collapse. The cat quite safely jumped back to the balcony, but the same...
A claimant sued a restaurant after consuming some questionable pasta that caused an allergic reaction. She was admitted in hospital and was charged bills of a significant amount of money. However, previous medical records and investigations resulted in the discovery that she had been similarly admitted to hospital on multiple...
A woman has lost a claim against all her belongings owing to a rare technicality in her insurance policy. The pensioner lost everything in a bushfire including her house, two vehicles, cat and business. She was denied her claim because she took out the policy less than 72 hours before...
An ex-insurance agent who surrendered his professional licence for issuing false policies and keeping the money has been arrested yet again for the same crimes. In spite of so many counts of insurance fraud the agent still remains free. His latest transaction was investigated after the insurance company who discovered...
