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Sometimes, what is most unusual about a settlement is the method of payment. Such was the case in August 2013, when Roger Herrin delivered a $150,000 judgment in a wrongful-death lawsuit via a flatbed truck filled with 7,500 pounds of quarters.

The lawsuit involved how insurance compensation for a 2001 car crash should be divided among Herrin (whose teen son was killed) and the surviving occupants who were in the same car. When an appellate court ordered Herrin to return part of the money which had originally been given to him, Herrin chose this method of payment “because I couldn’t do it in pennies,” he told WSIL.

The truck delivered the quarters to the startled attorneys representing the other crash victims. “We don’t have safes or vaults, and we lock our front door,” said Mark Prince of his Marion, Ill., firm. “Advance notice would have been nice, because we could have made arrangements to have it delivered to the bank.”

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