A lot can go wrong in 325 years, as British insurer Aviva PLC recalled recently inside a fit of nostalgia commemorating its more than three centuries of coughing up out commercial claims.
Like time a dentist was kicked through a window with a patient coming out of anesthesia, or even the time a sheep jumped through a glass showroom window, or once, in 1878, whenever a hotelkeeper working in london suffered a blow towards the eye in the cork of the champagne bottle he was opening, as reported by PA Media working in london.
Those are examples Aviva PLC has revealed in the all-time tally of unusual but valid claims.
Historical highlights include Aviva's payout of securities stolen within the Great Train Robbery in 1963 and a payout in 1984 from the stolen fishmonger's van caught in the infamous siege at the Libyan embassy: the van was parked nearby and may 't be moved until the siege ended, by which time the fish had rotted, the media outlet reported.
