Unfortunately, the largest insurance payouts come after natural disasters or extreme phenomena like hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and whatnot. There’s no point in considering these negative events so we prepared a list of 5 insane insurance checks that have nothing to do with disasters.
Rowan Atkinson’s car accident
While driving his McLaren F1, Mr. Bean caught a patch of ice and ended up doing a lot of damage to the 3.5 million pounds car. The result of this incident lead to the biggest car insurance check ever issued at over 900,000 pounds.
Crashing a Pagani Zonda S
During a test drive at a local car shop in Aberdeen, one ‘lucky’ potential customer managed to crash the Italian supercar. He then demanded 300,000 pounds from the insurance company and got them. Needless to say, Paganis are very rare and expensive with only 10 models built per year. Cheap insurance online can really make the difference in such cases.
Art demands sacrifices
During a loan to the Frankfurt museum, multiple J. M. W Turner paintings were stolen, leading to one of the biggest insurance claims in history for a total of over 24 million pounds. Now that’s some expensive art.
Bicycle trip worth 7 million dollars
In 2012, in Virginia, USA, a man fell off his bike while riding on an icy road which lead to some serious injuries. Little did he know that the fall would make him rich because he cashed in an insurance policy of over 7 million dollars because the road was not cleared by the landlord.
Pet insurance?
Perhaps you didn’t even know it’s possible to insure your pet, however, history proves us all wrong. A total of 22 thousand dollars was paid to the owners of a mixed-breed cat because she had to suffer a kidney surgery.
There you have it, the biggest insurance payouts in history. Still think insurance is unnecessary? Think twice.
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