A California-based insurance broker settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets complete of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney stated.
Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Adriana’s Insurance coverage Services, a Rancho Cucamonga-primarily based organization.
The East Los Angeles man alleged that in the course of an argument over why the firm had cancelled his auto insurance coverage, an agent assaulted him by physically removing him from the workplace.
The firm reached a settlement in June and final week delivered partial payment in the type of a check, but also tried to leave buckets of loose alter in his lawyer’s East Los Angeles office, lawyer Antonio Gallo stated.
Gallo stated he refused to accept the delivery since he couldn’t verify the quantity in the buckets. But, he stated, the cash was left the next day when he was at court.
His assistant said 8 folks came in “and just dropped it off in the lobby,” Gallo mentioned.
Gallo, who wouldn’t disclose the settlement figure, estimated there may be $ 20,000 or a lot more in coins.
“There’s perhaps 17 buckets of coins,” he mentioned. “They almost certainly (every single) weigh anywhere in between 70 to 25 pounds. I’m assuming, due to the fact I can’t lift them.”
A single bucket is totally complete of pennies, he added.
Gallo said he didn’t consider the payment was illegal in California but it is exclusive.
“It’s insulting to my client. He’s 76 years old, he just had a hernia operation. Come on,” Gallo stated. “He feels that he wasn’t treated as a human getting.”
“I am disappointed by the way Adriana’s treats their consumers and the elderly,” Carrasco told KNBC-Tv. “We may be poor, but we are folks as well.”
A get in touch with to the insurer’s lawyer, Edvin Flores, wasn’t instantly returned
Gallo stated he has been in contact with the broker’s lawyer and would like to see the firm issue a check for the rest of the settlement and take away the coins by Aug. 8. Otherwise, he will have to employ a person to count the stash.
“If the money’s quick, then we’ll probably go back into court” to ask for the complete quantity, along with the expense of counting the coins “and hopefully some sanctions,” Gallo stated.
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California Insurance coverage Broker Pays Off Lawsuit With Buckets of Coins
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