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CBS sued by widow of employee who died during auto-erotic asphyxiation
New York Post ^ | November 25, 2017 | By Tamar Lapin

Posted on 11/25/2017 5:05:17 PM PST by sparklite2

The network claimed LaFave risked killing himself when engaging in the sex act and his actions constituted an “intentionally self-inflicted injury,” which is not covered under their policy because it is not an “unanticipated accident.”

He was found partially kneeling, hanging from a wire closet shelf in his hotel room by a scarf tied around his neck, the lawsuit claims.

LaFave was wearing a slip, brassiere, women’s underwear and pantyhose, and multiple other scarves were tied around his crotch and lower half at the time of his death.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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                "I hate when I do that."

1 posted on 11/25/2017 5:05:17 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
After parking the car in the garage -- shut the engine off.

Of course I didn't read the article. Nobody's got time for 'dat.

2 posted on 11/25/2017 5:09:02 PM PST by BlueDragon
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To: BlueDragon

Not that kind of auto, dammit!


3 posted on 11/25/2017 5:11:33 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: sparklite2

How was I to know?


4 posted on 11/25/2017 5:13:27 PM PST by BlueDragon
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To: sparklite2

Clearly accidental. Was probably researching a story or some such.


5 posted on 11/25/2017 5:16:12 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: sparklite2

We had a CO tech pull that off in the cable vault in Laud years ago.
Bet his wife would be PO’d knowing all she got wa this crappy life insurance


6 posted on 11/25/2017 5:17:36 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: sparklite2

And how was CBS responsible for this perverted employee’s death?


7 posted on 11/25/2017 5:18:00 PM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: sparklite2

It turns out terminal stupidity is NOT a covered event.

Good to know — this lawsuit hasn’t got a chance.


8 posted on 11/25/2017 5:18:02 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Ted Kennedy is the only person with an actual confirmed kill in the war on women.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Yea probably trying to see if the rumors were true !!


9 posted on 11/25/2017 5:18:11 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Andy'smom

CBS life insurance.


10 posted on 11/25/2017 5:20:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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Are we sure Harvey Weinstein or Bill Clinton wasn’t somewhere else at the time?


11 posted on 11/25/2017 5:20:59 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: sparklite2

I guess he didn’t know if he was coming or going...


12 posted on 11/25/2017 5:21:09 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: sparklite2

Isn’t this basically how they found David Carradine?


13 posted on 11/25/2017 5:21:27 PM PST by mowowie
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To: mowowie

...and Michael Hutchence?


14 posted on 11/25/2017 5:24:46 PM PST by mowowie
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To: sparklite2

If it wasn’t suicide sounds like she has a decent case this should have been covered under his accidental death policy. And suicide is covered after 2 years under most policies.


15 posted on 11/25/2017 5:29:17 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: sparklite2
Lawrence LaFave


16 posted on 11/25/2017 5:34:01 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: wastoute

LOL! Best one today.


17 posted on 11/25/2017 5:34:27 PM PST by redfreedom
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“David Carradine?”

Yup. In Thailand for a film.


18 posted on 11/25/2017 5:35:56 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: SkyPilot

That’s Lawrence on the left. That’s his clothes on the right.


19 posted on 11/25/2017 5:36:26 PM PST by Rastus
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To: sparklite2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation

I could see an attorney arguing that the guy did not intend to kill himself and it was an accidental death akin to a heroin overdose. The guy was addicted to the rush that apparently happens when someone does this. If the insurance company has covered accidental drug overdoses in the past, they may have a tough time explaining how this is different.

From wiki: Author George Shuman describes the effect as such, “When the brain is deprived of oxygen, it induces a lucid, semi-hallucinogenic state called hypoxia. Combined with orgasm, the rush is said to be no less powerful than cocaine, and highly addictive.”

Baffling to me even more so than shooting heroin or cocaine... bizarro.


20 posted on 11/25/2017 5:38:02 PM PST by know.your.why
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