If we asked you to guess who set the record for largest personal auto insurance claim in history back in 2013, you might name some wealthy Sultan, or a racing legend like Max Verstappen. If we told you it actually belonged to a comedian, you might guess Jay Leno or Adam Carolla. Unless you’re from England, in which case you’d get it right on your first try: Rowan Atkinson.

Or as we know him here in the States. Mister Bean. Like the Three Stooges or Laurel & Hardy, Atkinson is regarded in the US as being one and the same as his most famous onscreen character. If you’re a big British comedy fan, maybe you’ve seen Blackadder, but, by and large, we tend to forget that Rowan is a real guy with real interests beyond getting his head stuck in a Thanksgiving turkey. I fact, he actually has claim to one of the most impressive car collections in the world, which at one point included a McLaren F1, and that’s how he wound up making the largest claim in the history of personal automotive insurance. Read more