Insurance scam?
That's what I'm thinking. I am reminded of a controversial "art" show a while back that had lots of pieces that required no time or expensive materials (or talent, for that matter) to create. The pieces were similarly "valuable." After the show was taken down, the pieces were stored in a warehouse which subsequently burned. I thought at the time that the thing to do would be to create scores of such artworks and lend them to galleries and museums worldwide. Then, whenever any disaster struck anywhere - cha-ching!