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Two workers in lottery pool sue over $118 million ticketReply
**sigh** (muttering to self BE the pool , be THE pool , be the POOL )
May 20, 2012, 3:23 pm - maximumfun - Lottery News

Piqua lottery winners sued by co-workersReply
When we had lottery pools where i worked one person was the designated ticket purchaser each of us, only ten players would be in the pool... the first 10 people to put up a buck. The rest were out of luck. This was understood from the get go that under no circumstances if you weren't among the first 10 people in the pool then you weren't in the pool. Weren't entitled to any of the money should the group of ten win a jackpot. Lots of times people that were in the pool were not always in t
Dec 26, 2008, 3:18 am - four4me - Lottery News

Mega Millions winner forced to split jackpot with co-workersReply
This story kind of hit me close to home because I run a lottery pool at work. 13 of us buy Powerball, Lotto, and MegaMillions tickets every payday that cover all of the drawings until the next payday. I also buy tickets for myself, but I take steps to make sure there is no confusion between pool tickets and my personal tickets. The tickets I buy for the pool are multidraw tickets that cover the 4 drawings between paydays, and my personal tickets for for individual draws. In addition, every membe
Mar 17, 2012, 11:32 am - PrisonerSix - Lottery News

Piqua lottery winners sued by co-workersReply
What KY Floyd said and so did i It doesn't matter what is written on paper if someone wants to contest it they can period. Where big money is concerned in a lottery pool members of the pool can be disputed by anyone who has or think they have a claim in said pool. If they were in a previous pool and for some reason were left out of a future pool they might be bitter if the members of a pool won a jackpot and file a claim... it has happened many times before and it will happen many times again.
Dec 26, 2008, 10:11 pm - four4me - Lottery News

SoCal man sues to get share of $315 million lottery jackpotReply
demonter - i agree whole-heartedly here. There is a rule stated in my pool that if the trustee of the pool ( being me) buys his own separate tickets, then those tickets MUST BE POSTED to the rest of the group before that drawing, or else they become property of the pool. Pool members are responsible for looking at the updated board for changes. It is signed in their Agreement. Therefore, we avoid any frivolous lawsuits. I rarely buy extra Powerball tickets anyway, just because I have a large sta
Dec 18, 2005, 11:27 am - cps10 - Lottery News

Jury rules lottery pool members entitled to share Mega Millions prizeNews Story
Only six Ohio postal workers sued Stephen Kyle for a piece of a $175,000 winning lottery ticket.But all 20 lottery-pool members -- including Kyle -- will share the jackpot evenly after a jury ruled Tuesday that Kyle was wrong to keep the money for himself, cutting his colleagues out of their fair shares.If all 20 stake a claim, each will be eligible to receive $8,750, before taxes. Three of the pool members who testified on Kyle's behalf during the two-day trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas C
Jan 20, 2005, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Mega Millions winner already in pool disputeReply
There is such an easy way to play a work lotto pool that would avoid all this potential lying and deceipt: 1) Each person who plays in that individual lotto pool must sign a group pool signup form every time they play the pool. No signature, no pool entry, no exceptions. The lotto pool form is to spell out all of the rules for playing in that pool. 2) All pool lottery tickets are to be bought the day before the drawing, no exceptions. Tickets are to be bought at the same time each drawing,
Apr 2, 2012, 10:54 am - Seattlejohn - Lottery News

Piqua lottery winners sued by co-workersReply
It's a bit more f-ing difficult than you thought, and it took you less than 5 minutes to get it wrong. If you let me play in the pool for tonight's drawing and we win, some of that money is mine. Period. If that money is spent on tickets for the next drawing, I now own a portion of any winnings from that drawing. Period. Contracts are held to be invalid, in whole or in part, every day, and you've written one that would never hold up in court. Allowing people to choose to be in or out of indiv
Dec 26, 2008, 3:58 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticketReply
If everyone in the pool is cooperative photocopies handed out ahead of time might prevent problems, but if there's a dispute they probably won't mean anything since the only thing they can conclusively prove is that tickets with those numbers were photcopied. Your fellow pool members might accept them as proof that you bought the right number of tickets, but if you also bought a significant winner that you claim doesn't belong to them there's nothing but their honesty to prevent them from simply
Dec 30, 2005, 1:21 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

SoCal man sues to get share of $315 million lottery jackpotReply
This exact same thing ocurred about two years ago in NJ where the Sate Superior Court Judge ruled in favor of the planitiff. The guy missed work the day the pool money was due and the pool subsequently hit the Pick 6 for 35 million dollars. Pools have to start being more legal and formal now; hire a lawyer before your pool hits and draw up pool rules and have a pool contract where everyone in the pool agrees to the rules. This is getting ridiculous...avoid pools, or get a Lottery Pool Contrac
Dec 16, 2005, 4:25 pm - demonter - Lottery News