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In Wikipedia:
In Canada, one of the leading cases of this type resulted in a record punitive damages award of $ 1 million CAD when an insurance company pressed a claim for arson when its own experts and adjusters had come to the conclusion the fire was accidental and the lawyer advised the client that the desperate insured parties would be willing to settle for much less than what they were owed (Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He said when he heard the news Tuesday that the fire was not accidental, it all made sense.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Investigators noted burn patterns on the floor of the third floor apartment where the fire started, saying those patterns show the fire was not accidental.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
According to four fire experts consulted by the Tribune, the original investigation was flawed and it is even possible the fire was accidental.
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In Wikipedia:
While it has not been explicitly stated whether the fire was accidental or the result of arson, Snicket has several times hinted that someone else was at the Baudelaire mansion when the fire started.
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In Wikipedia:
In other words, the fire may have been accidental.
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In Wikipedia:
On 11 April 1796 she was destroyed in an accidental fire.
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In Wikipedia:
In February 2005, the officers club was destroyed by an accidental fire.
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In Wikipedia:
Specifically, officials cited: Officials also noted that the CN Tower has an excellent safety record and that there has never been an accidental fire in the tower since it was opened in 1976.
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In Wikipedia:
In September 2004, a panel appointed by the central government and headed by former Supreme Court judge UC Banerjee to probe the Godhra train fire concluded that the fire was accidental.
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In Wikipedia:
Operation Vixen was formulated to investigate what would happen to a nuclear device which burnt or was subject to a non nuclear explosion. 31 Vixen A trials between 1959 and 1961 investigated the effects of an accidental fire on a nuclear weapon, and involved a total of about 1 kg of plutonium.
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In the British National Corpus:
The burden of proving such negligence is on the plaintiff; it is not for the defendant to prove that the fire was accidental.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Officially, the fire was accidental.
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In Wikipedia:
Gugdar Bazar was burnt in fire in Late eighties by what looked like accidental fire which started in huge can of kerosene oil.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I woke up to a dream about an accidental fire (which is what can happen when amateurs set off fireworks at a party) that immediately engulfed… everywhere.
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In Wikipedia:
Knoxville Fire Department investigators determined that the fire was accidental and was not due to an electrical problem.
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In Wikipedia:
What was first thought of as an accidental fire set by the careless discarding of a match by two women changed quickly the day after the blaze when five African – Americans were arrested after reports they had drunkenly threatened to burn the building down.
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In Wikipedia:
The congregations original wood synagogue was burned to the ground in 1993, in what was thought at the time to be an accidental fire.
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In Wikipedia:
This remote site was chosen due to high costs of land in the city and fear of accidental fire.
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