insurance fire

English

Noun

insurance fire (plural insurance fires)

  1. (law) A form of arson in which a fire is intentionally started in order to enable collection from an insurance policy that protects against accidental fires.
    • 1921, Office of the Fire Marshal of the State of Louisiana, Annual Report - Volumes 17-35, page 7:
      The other fifty-four cases were insurance fires, that is the motive was that of burning to collect insurance.
    • 2009, Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, page 419:
      A more likely theory is that it was an insurance fire, as the Bennett brothers were in financial trouble...
    • 2012, David Holmberg, The Tinderbox, page 87:
      Most of the people thought it was an insurance fire, that Aronez or someone hired by him had set it.
    • 2016, Stephen Birmingham, The Rothman Scandal, page 619:
      They're even hinting that the loss of our Ingleside printing plant was an insurance fire, for God's sake!

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