A man who opened a bottle of champagne and hit himself in the eye, thereby sustaining serious injury, sued a beverage distributor. He said that during the distribution, the bottle was shaken up, which caused the cork to pop out unexpectedly. Needless to say, after the trial, he went home...
A big pot of soup was the saviour of a woman’s home because of her son’s quick thinking. The claimant woke up and heard the typical crackling sounds of a fire coming from the laundry room. When he went to investigate, he found that a plastic sink in the room...
An employee filed a workers’ compensation claim for a back and neck injury as a result of being thrown from a forklift. Quite natural, and the insurer did not even dispute the claim, having a video that proved nothing was amiss. What is scary is that the injured worker was...
A claim was received for a home and contents destroyed in a fire. When the insurer took the owner’s statement he explained that he had taken most of the furniture out to their yard and set it on fire in attempt to get rid of bed bugs! Flames leapt from...
A claimant submitted a workers’ compensation claim for a severe cut on his hand and fingers. When asked how this injury occurred, he said that he was reaching into his boss’s drawer and was cut by a sharp hunting knife that the boss kept in the drawer, apparently to deter...
So here’s another funny insurance claim. This one pensioner set off on a cruise and found the trip to be a little too queasy owing to sea sickness. The sickly traveller ended up throwing up on the side of the ship and in the process lost his false teeth into...
One policyholder filed a claim for damage to his car after a hailstorm. The insurance adjuster took one look at the car and was immediately suspicious. The damage on the car, seemingly was too neat to have been caused by hail. Instead, it looked like somebody had repeatedly hit the...
Would you chop off your arm to collect on a dismemberment policy? Neither would Michael LeDuc. That's why he faked an amputation instead. To fool his insurance company, he submitted forged medical records showing he lost an arm in a wood chipper. His insurer caught the fraudulent paperwork. Apparently, it's hard to...
Who knew fireplace ashes could cause so much trouble? A mother and her children had a near-death experience caused by week-old fireplace ashes, which apparently can remain hot for days even after the fire is out. The family took ashes that had been in the fireplace for a week, put...
A woman faces charges of murder and reckless driving without a licence after authorities say she was texting a message when she hit and killed an elderly woman who was walking to visit a neighbour. The police said that the driver also hit several garbage cans, a fence, a mailbox...
