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Mass. Lottery dispute takes bizarre turnNews Story
In October Kevin Donovan became the talk of the town when he claimed to have thrown away a winning $1 million lottery ticket that another man found in the trash. Now, while embroiled with the Massachusetts Lottery Commission in a battle to reclaim the ticket from the man who found it, Donovan has suffered the ultimate loss. Just 49 years old, Donovan suffered a fatal heart attack while traveling in Hyannis on Tuesday, according toKate Donovan, his ex-wife. The couple had been divorced sin
Feb 4, 2006, 8:42 am - Todd - 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
cps10 wrote:<< I haven't kicked anyone out yet. Most people who are 2 or 3 payments behind generally pay up within a reasonable time frame. >> If you don't enforce your own rules why would you expect a court to enforce them for you if there's a dispute? You're the one that's setting the precedent that somebody's lawyer will cite if you happen to win shortly after dropping somebody.As for buying tickets separately from the pool, they should always be bought at a different place in a
Dec 19, 2005, 12:19 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

B.C. lottery officials extend deadline to settle fight over jackpotReply
B.C. Lottery Corp stated the various legal counsels representing all the workers said they were unable to resolve their dispute so they will meet in court. The money will earn interest while the case is heard through the courts.Co-workers Tanis McQuillan and Meagan Weisgerber came forward to say they had been part of the group's lottery pool because they had previously paid in -- although not for the time the winning ticket was bought, according to the nine who made the original claim. Two mor
Sep 1, 2005, 9:29 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Hectic job good way to forget lottery fightNews Story
It was a case of lotto fever gone out of control.And now, a once-congenial group of 20 office workers at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center are nursing their wounds after a bitter court battle over a $45 million jackpot.But it's the hectic pace of the high-pressure Cardiac-Catheterization Lab that keeps the co-workers from letting their anger from the court case infect the workplace. That's been our saving grace, my saving grace, said Jamal Townes, whose claims about the winning lottery tick
Sep 29, 2003, 3:34 am - Todd - Lottery News

How a lottery win tore a family apartNews Story
Some lottery winners can't resist shouting their good fortune from the rooftops with a champagne-spraying celebration. Others prefer to keep their new-found wealth secret, fearful of begging letters and never-ending jealousy from friends and extended family. Clyde Baxter had no doubt which route he preferred in the wake of a staggering 6.75 million Lottery win seven years ago. While he felt obliged to tell his parents and two of his siblings, he refused to tell two other brothers, presumabl
Aug 3, 2006, 11:54 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Judge rules in legal dispute over $33M Lotto Max jackpotNews Story
After legal battle, judge rules original Lotto Max claimant entitled to prize A $33 million lottery jackpot should soon be in the hands of an Edmonton man who has waited almost two months to claim the prize, one of the biggest awarded to a single lottery winner in Canada. A judge on Wednesday ruled that Matthew Hayduk should be immediately entitled to $33,301,693.30 after finding that another would-be prize claimant, Ted Baltoussen, did not have standing to assert a claim to the money.
Jun 23, 2011, 12:04 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winner faces murder trial in Detroit landlord's deathNews Story
Witnesses: Father shot Australian in dispute over daughter's rent A Michigan Lottery millionaire was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for first-degree premeditated murder. Freddie Young, 62, whose 13-member lottery club hit a $46.5 million Mega Millions jackpot in February, was bound over by 36th District Judge Patricia Jefferson on charges related to the May 7 slaying of his daughter's landlord in an alleged dispute over two months' unpaid rent. Witnesses testified at a preliminary e
May 27, 2011, 2:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lotteries long for 'jackpot fever'Reply
Here is a LIST of the reasons for the cool down : -There have been so many jackpots over 100 million. When 50 million was noteworthy it was because it was unusual. -There is an inflation effect. If you want to buy a house for cash you need to win about 1 million (advertised annuity) or more! -There are always stories (and TV series) about people who won big but were even more miserable after. -People are tired of buying loads of tickets and then having hardly any matching numbers le
Feb 13, 2007, 6:07 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

Co-worker suing for share of lottery prizeReply
sirbrad wrote: << If you did not put your money into the draw, you are not in that draw. It is that simple. I don't care if you put in the draw 20 years, if your money is not in for the winning draw, you are out. It is that simple. >> If there's a dispute nothing is ever simple. If they were a regular player why weren't they in the winning draw? Was it because they were out sick or didn't have any cash that day, or was it because when they got out of a meeting at 3:00 the tic
Mar 24, 2006, 4:10 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News