A US insurance company has claimed actress Shannen Doherty is just looking for sympathy — and a payout to get her California home repaired — by announcing her terminal stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
According to the New York Post, the former Charmed star sued US insurance company State Farm in March 2019 after the insurance giant refused to pay the full amount for repairs on her home, which was damaged in the devastating 2018 California fires.
In a filing in Los Angeles federal court, lawyers for State Farm wrote that Doherty plans to "garner sympathy by her contention that State Farm must rebuild her entire house" when she appears at trial.
"Plaintiff improperly claims she is entitled to have her entire home rebuilt at a cost of $US2.7 million ($A4 million) because she has breast cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," the court documents state.