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March 11, 2021 - 7:00 AM An unfortunate misunderstanding almost left a Thompson senior $452,000 out of pocket after her insurance company refused to pay up when her house burned down. Luckily, for the 61-year-old Ashcroft woman, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Leonard Marchand ruled that evidence presented in the case tipped the scales ever so slightly in her favour. According to a Mar. 3 decision, the case centres around an Ashcroft property Sharla Dubroy owned but didn t live in. When the home was destroyed by a fire in January 2019, Dubroy s insurance company refused to pay-up saying the contract was void because she failed to inform them that her brother had moved out of the home and her son and daughter-in-law had moved in.