Insurance Company Refuses to Pay $50,000 Charity Prize Money

Typically uncool behavior for usually unfair insurance companies...

From NBCSports.com:

A fan who made an incredible shot for charity at an Indiana Ice minor league hockey game promotion will not get the chance to give his prize money to charity, because an insurance company deemed the shot illegal. Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life approves.

Richard Marsh hit the 3-inch-diameter puck an estimated 175 feet into a target slightly larger than 3 inches wide, winning the $50,000 prize in the team’s “Hockey for Heart” promotion for St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana. Making this an even better ending, Marsh had announced before the shot that he would donate all of the money to St. Vincent Heart Center if he won.

The promotion was sponsored by All State Insurance, but a third-party insurance company hired by the ice arena was responsible for the payout.

That company — which remains unnamed — voided the payout, ruling that Marsh had released the shot over the designated starting line, which was against the rules.

Read the full story and watch the 'unlucky' shot.