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Last Post 01/17/2009 11:04 PM by  kmerian
Stella Awards, (Ludicrous Lawsuits)
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01/17/2009 1:56 PM
    We wonder why our insurance rates are what they are. Insurance fraud, dishonest groups, and free wheeling attorney's. Money does not grow on insurance company trees.
     

    SADLY, actual lawsuits which made it to the "Stella" awards. Named after the woman who won the McDonald's lawsuit for spilling the coffee in her own lap!  So next time you're wondering why insurance and attorneys cost so much, you now know the answer.

     7TH PL ACE :

    Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
     

    6TH PLACE :

    Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California, won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
     

    5TH PLACE :

    Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.
     

    4TH PLACE :

    Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
     

    3RD PLACE :

    Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
     

    2ND PLACE :
    Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware, sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000..oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.

    1ST PLACE :
    (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please)This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, hav ing driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.


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    01/17/2009 9:47 PM
    I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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    01/17/2009 10:18 PM
    OK, let's start our own.

    7th place:
    (name redacted) demands new roof "because neighbor's roofs being replaced by their Insurance"
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    01/17/2009 11:04 PM
    6th place:

    Insured demands we pay to level his foundation because "he has been paying for insurance for 20 years and never had to use it"

    OR (heard this personally during hurricane Floyd)

    Insured demands we cover his house destroyed by flood even though he does not have flood insurance because the president declared New Jersey a disaster area and that automatically triggers flood coverage under his Homeowners Policy!
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