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Insurer pays off lawsuit with thousands in coins

This image provided by Andres Carrasco shows him in his office in Los Angeles, July 31, 2014 with buckets of change he won as a partial settlement in a 2012 lawsuit against Adriana’s Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based company. The insurance company settled with Carrasco, by dropping off buckets full of thousands dollars in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. (AP Photo
This image provided by Andres Carrasco shows him in his office in Los Angeles, July 31, 2014 with buckets of change he won as a partial settlement in a 2012 lawsuit against Adriana’s Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based company. The insurance company settled with Carrasco, by dropping off buckets full of thousands dollars in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. (AP Photo This image provided by Andres Carrasco shows him in his office in Los Angeles, July 31, 2014 with buckets of change he won as a partial settlement in a 2012 lawsuit against Adriana’s Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based company. The insurance company settled with Carrasco, by dropping off buckets full of thousands dollars in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. (AP Photo

LOS ANGELES (AP) – An insurance company settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney said Wednesday.

Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Adriana’s Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga-based company.

The East Los Angeles man alleged that during an argument over why the company had cancelled his auto insurance, an agent assaulted him by physically removing him from the office.

The company reached a settlement in June and last week delivered partial payment in the form of a check, but also tried to leave buckets of loose change in his lawyer’s East Los Angeles office, attorney Antonio Gallo said.

Gallo said he refused to accept the delivery because he couldn’t verify the amount in the buckets. But, he said, the cash was left the next day when he was at court.