The Man Who Sued God...

A rather amusing film I saw the other week, but it had some interesting points.
Basic gist of the film. A fisherman's boat is destroyed by lightning, and the insurance company will not pay out as it is an Act of God. Fisherman thus feels that if it was an Act of God, then God Himself must be liable, and proceeds to sue Him through His representatives on Earth (the church)

Should insurance companies be able to still use such a clause which means they don't have to pay out in such freak occurences, despite the fact that freak occurences (aka accidents) are the entire reason for taking out insurance on an item...?

Spike

i think insurance is he biggest scam around.

If I may be the voice of reason here, what if God really didn't want that guy to have a boat? Who would the insurance company be to go against God by replacing this man's boat?

Thats funny. Suing a nonexistant entity....

insurance is just a fancy, conneticuit way of saying extortion....

I wonder if a plaintiff, who sues his insurance company for failure to pay a claim based on the Act of God clause, could force the insurance company to prove that there is a god and the god acted. Its sounds like a pretty tough defense...

IK'm pretty sure the "act of God" clause is more specific than that. It gives a pretty clear definition of what will be considered acts of God. If I'm not wrong, they don't even call them acts of God anymore. There's some other term for it now, but I don't know what it is.

"Force majeure"

I'm with Chris Rock on this: it should be called "In case shit…", and if you don't use it, you get your money back.

well, im gonna sue Santa for all that reindeer shit he left on my roof last year.......And im pretty sure the tooth fairy was taking pictures of me while i was sleeping.....

The premise of that film is doubly funny: people rely on mystery cults as a form of psychological insurance anyway,

"If this world is shitty, but I remain virtuous according to the terms set forth by my relgious group, then I'm still ensured reward in the afterlife," reasoned the little deluded dupe.