[CPProt.net] Insurance company denies claim on stolen Wizard of Oz slippers

[MSN CPPnet (Ton Cremers)]

Posted on Fri, Dec. 09, 2005  
 
Insurance company denies claim on stolen Wizard of Oz slippers


Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS - Click your heels together and say, "There's no place like
court!"

An insurance company said it won't pay a $1 million claim on one of the
pairs of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. The
slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids in August.
They're one of four pairs of slippers Garland wore in the 1939 movie.

A lawsuit filed in Minneapolis by Essex Insurance said it won't pay the
claim because the museum deactivated the burglar alarm and did not have
video surveillance or working motion detectors.

John Kelsh, executive director of the museum, said Friday that he had not
seen the lawsuit. "I don't want to comment because I haven't seen the
document," he said.