Insurance company pays $21K settlement in loose change

TORONTO – A California man received a $21,000 insurance settlement this week in buckets of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies.

According to CBS Los Angeles, Andres Carrasco filed a lawsuit in 2012, claiming an employee at Adriana’s Insurance Service, Inc. physically assaulted him.

After agreeing to a settlement with the senior citizen in June, the insurance company reportedly sent Carrasco a cheque of an undisclosed amount of money but also delivered 16 buckets of loose change to the office of the man’s lawyer.

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“It’s going to take us at least, conservatively, one week to count that whole amount of money,” Antonio Gallo told CBS.

According to NBC, Carrasco recently had a hernia operation and Gallo said his client can’t lift a single bucket of coins.

“Adriana’s Insurance, is this the way you treat everyone?” Carrasco said in a statement. “Why don’t you like your clients?”

The insurance company has declined requests for comment.