May 2010: Indianapolis – Unexpected Lottery Lawsuit for $11.5 Million

by: JohnCurio - Category: lottery jackpot, unclaimed jackpot

70-year-old Charles Andrews claims that a clerk from a Speedway store refused to sell him a lottery ticket for the February 2008 Hoosier Lottery a few minutes before the cutoff time. Andrews kept the pay slip with the store and his numbers turned out to be equivalent to $11.5 million jackpot.

Speedway store representatives claim that the incident did not occur as Andrews has illustrated and currently they are looking for a security tape that can shed a light upon the events from that night.

According to the Hoosier Lottery spokeswoman vendors are able to set their own hours for selling lottery tickets, but all sales must be completed by 10:40 p.m. Andrews’ lawyers say that the law isn’t explicit about the retail hours and that “it’s only fair to the citizens who spend their hard-earned money on the lottery to know when the lottery is open…”. The lawsuit was transferred to federal court and now awaits judge’s ruling.

Unclaimed Lottery Winnings

by: admin - Category: lottery winner, unclaimed jackpot, unclaimed lottery

Picture the scene, you beat the odds and win the lottery jackpot. Now imagine this scene, you have no idea you’ve won!

Strange as it sounds, every year millions of dollars of lottery / loto winnings go unclaimed around the world. In all of the worlds strange twists of fate, in my mind this ranks the highest. You could be living in the city or the country side and if you had just double checked your ticket or saved it from your jeans pocket before putting them in wash, you could be sitting pretty on a large sum of cash. But for many this is not meant to be.

Its been reported that last year in the USA alone more than $600 million in lottery winnings were unclaimed. Enough to salvage the average high street bank