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== [[Film]] ==
* In one of the Danish ''[[Olsen
== [[Literature]] ==
* In one of the ''[[
* [[Douglas Adams]] once suggested that insurance companies have [[Time Travel]], which is why whatever happens to you is mysteriously excluded from the policy ''and always was''.
* In ''[[Discworld
* An insurance company ''thought'' they were doing this, when they sold a policy to a young seaman in Tom Holt's ''Flying Dutch.'' But then he became the imortal captain of the Flying Dutchman, and after living to the impossibly old age that the policy required before it made any payout, the payout ''increased'' each year he survived beyond that. Now, if he dies, the insurance company is on the hook for more money than there is in the world, and through a variety of mergers, and such, they've distributed the risk to every bank and insurance company in the world, so they need him to go on living forever, or his death will destroy the entire world's economy.
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** In "The Canal" Baron Seagoon insures his nephew Neddie against various unlikely fatal accidents - all of which he has of course arranged. The [[Running Gag]] is that Neddie always manages to escape ''just'' before the Baron can collect.
** In "Insurance, The White Man's Burden" Grytpype and Moriarty persuade Neddie to take out fire insurance - on the English Channel. This backfires when Coastguard Crun pours oil on the sea to calm the waves during a rescue and then burns it off.
* In ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
* On ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* George in ''[[
* Occurs in ''[[Exiern]]'' [http://www.exiern.com/?p=160 here], but even when you get the best of that demonic lawyer, [http://www.exiern.com/?p=172 just try cashing in that policy]. When it comes to insurance companies, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
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* When ''[[The Simpsons]]'' go to Italy, their car gets hit by Mortadella cheese falling off a cheese truck. They got the cheese insurance, but it doesn't cover Mortadella.
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Fool Coverage", Daffy is an insurance salesman trying to sell Porky some life insurance. He promises the policy will pay Porky one million dollars for a black eye... provided it was the result of an elephant stampede happening in his house between 3:55 and 4:00 PM on July 4 during a hailstorm. At the end of the cartoon, that is ''exactly'' what happens! To try to save face, Daffy adds "and a baby zebra" to the clause. Cue baby zebra.
* This is the plot of the ''[[
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