The rumor spread through the city like wildfire (which had quite often spread through Ankh-Morpork since its citizens had learned the words "fire insurance").
Mike: Saw this in a movie once. Guy signed his wife's insurance policy. Then he bumped her off.
Wonka: Clever.
Wonka: Clever.
Sparks: I set it all up, Skip! Got you to run your credit card up buying stuff that I like so you'd send them looking for made up treasure in a wreck stuffed with TNT so that I could blow them up and collect on the insurance.
Murphy: Yeah, okay, stop. I'm all jibbered up here, but the important thing is you're going to pay off my card, yeah?
Sparks: You don't need to pay it off.
Murphy: Howzat?
Sparks: Cause I've got one more policy. [holds up Tesla coil over the hot tub Murphy is in]
Murphy: Uh...yours?
Sparks: No.
Murphy: Ohhhhh. Well, See You in Hell then!
Sparks: Probably.
Murphy: Yeah, okay, stop. I'm all jibbered up here, but the important thing is you're going to pay off my card, yeah?
Sparks: You don't need to pay it off.
Murphy: Howzat?
Sparks: Cause I've got one more policy. [holds up Tesla coil over the hot tub Murphy is in]
Murphy: Uh...yours?
Sparks: No.
Murphy: Ohhhhh. Well, See You in Hell then!
Sparks: Probably.
— Sealab 2021, "The Policy"
"...[The editor of the local newspaper] also said that the explosion that decimated the Daily Journal's distribution plant is still totally an accident, and would like her insurance rep to call her back. Please. Call. Her. Back."
— Welcome to Night Vale Episode 4
Rarity: Then we cracked it! Blueblood staged the fire and Applejack is a clumsy mudpony!
Applejack: Well, he... he could have sabotaged me. I don't think we should rule that out.
Rarity: We really should notify the authorities!
Applejack: Wait, who are the authorities? Blueblood is royalty, ain't he?
Rarity: Well, the princess, surely...
[Beat]
Rarity: Dash, did the princess have an insurance policy on the castle?
Rainbow Dash: A big one!
Twilight Sparkle: She also hates the Gala.
Rarity: Oh...well...good work, team, we cracked the caper.
Twilight: And now let's never speak of it again.
Applejack: Well, he... he could have sabotaged me. I don't think we should rule that out.
Rarity: We really should notify the authorities!
Applejack: Wait, who are the authorities? Blueblood is royalty, ain't he?
Rarity: Well, the princess, surely...
[Beat]
Rarity: Dash, did the princess have an insurance policy on the castle?
Rainbow Dash: A big one!
Twilight Sparkle: She also hates the Gala.
Rarity: Oh...well...good work, team, we cracked the caper.
Twilight: And now let's never speak of it again.
— My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series, Episode -18
You bet that your house will burn down, they bet it won’t, that’s all. What fools you is that you didn’t want your house to burn down when you made the bet, and so you forget it’s a bet. That don’t fool them. To them a bet is a bet, and a hedge bet don’t look any different than any other bet. But there comes a time, maybe, when you do want your house to burn down, when the money is worth more than the house. And right there is where the trouble starts.
I hired some thieves to break into my apartment and steal some stuff so I could claim on the insurance as you do. The thieving bastards are threatening to tell the insurance company, if I don't give them a cut. Can you believe it?
— Marty Chonks, Grand Theft Auto III
"I set fire to my failing garment business, so I'd collect the insurance... but Superman came along and extinguished the blaze! It left me bankrupt!"
King Merriman: And that's why i burned down the water park for the insurance money.
Patrick: Was the water park insured?
[Beat]
King Merriman: Fuckin' beans!
Guybrush: I'm cashing in this insurance policy. Give me a lot of money.
Stan: But this is a LIFE insurance policy. You collect when the policy holder dies.
Guybrush: No, honest! I WAS dead, for a really long time!
Stan: And you just "got better?"
Guybrush: Well, yes.
Stan: Do you have any proof of this miracle?
Guybrush: As a matter of fact, smart guy, I've got your proof right here! A death certificiate.
Stan: Well, this must be some kind of mistake.
Guybrush: Nuh-uh, it's all right there, in high-res black and white. I died. Give me a lot of money.
Stan: Hmmm...It looks like I'm left with no choice but to acquiesce.
Guybrush: No! Just give me my money!
Stan: That's what I mean.
Guybrush: Oh. Thanks.
"He pays us to rob this house. And get this, it only turns out to be his own house. It's full of all this art, you know, Mondrians and Kandinskys or something. It's all bollocks to me, anyway. But, you name it, he's got it. And every single one was a worthless fake. I kid you not. Turns out it was all one gigantic insurance fraud."
— Lewis, Man vs. Bee
