No, it was an actual case where a woman put her husband's accidently severed fingertip in her chili and tried to sue. I can just picture her pulling up to their shack in her Chevette which leans noticeably to the driver's side, Wendy's bags on the seat beside her, when hubby comes running out with his hand wrapped in a bloody towel, and the light bulb goes on over her head when she starts trying to figure out how they're going to pay for numbnut's latest misadverture. "A foolproof plan," she thinks with her double digit IQ.

Of course it's all just speculation on my part as to the events surrounding the formation of the woman's master plan.