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Geico ordered to pay Missouri woman $5.2 million after she contracted STD in a car
CNN ^ | June 9, 2022 | Jalen Beckford

Posted on 06/10/2022 12:55:16 PM PDT by BAW

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s arbitration, not mediation. Mediation is not binding.


21 posted on 06/10/2022 1:36:02 PM PDT by bwest
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To: BAW

Hey if it works for auto insurance is it covered by home owner insurance? How about renters insurance?


22 posted on 06/10/2022 1:45:07 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: TexasFreeper2009
"...you mean all I have to do to become a millionaire is
get some girl with a relatively harmless std to have sex with me..."


23 posted on 06/10/2022 1:46:58 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Brookhaven
Cut your hand while in the vehicle? Covered.

Auto insurance companies make big bucks from medical bill coverage because most people who are injured in their car (even in a collision) will use their health insurance for coverage instead of their auto insurance.

That's why my medical insurance company was pushing me for my car insurance info when I smashed my thumb in my car door and needed stitches. I played dumb about whether I had medical coverage because I really didn't want an accident claim on my car insurance because they can jack up rates but the medical insurance is on a group rate not directly affected by my claims.

24 posted on 06/10/2022 1:52:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: DoughtyOne

Doesn’t work like that.

She claimed he negligently transmitted the disease. So she sued the man.

His insurance company owed him indemnity because the negligence arose in relation to the use of the vehicle, just like if he hit someone with it.

There are loading/unloading cases like this with drill pipe (pipe falls off truck when loading because someone was being an idiot).

His homeowners’ insurance probably would pay, too, if he nailed her at his house, just like if you negligently harm someone in your house.


25 posted on 06/10/2022 2:08:36 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: BAW

How could any insurance company, even with the worst lawyers, not win this lawsuit? If they’re going to be that stupid with their policy-holders’ premiums, it’s time to stop buying car insurance.


26 posted on 06/10/2022 2:08:55 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: BAW

Was it an SUV ?? Bad enough SUV are running people down

You now can give you a STD !!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 06/10/2022 2:20:34 PM PDT by njslim
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To: BAW

I don’t see any mention of what kind of car. Shouldn’t the car’s manufacturer have to pay too? They created the attractive nuisance.


28 posted on 06/10/2022 2:36:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MeanWestTexan

Notice it didn’t hit the homosexual community spreading
a disease far and wide at bath houses.

The man did not hit the woman with his car. His car was not
involved with the transmission of the disease. Some flaw in
his vehicle didn’t inflict this on her.

She did by using poor judgment.

If she thinks she can get funds from his investments/assets
fine. This is not the same thing at all.

As I said, every woman who contracted VD at a hotel would
then be able to go after the hotel.

Just nonsense...

I appreciate your attempt at a rational response, but I’m
not buying.


29 posted on 06/10/2022 2:37:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: BAW
Crazy verdicts coming out of Jackson County, Missouri, are nothing new.

Peter Hardeman Burnett was the first American governor of California. He was born in Tennessee, lived in Jackson Co. for a while, was an early settler in Oregon and then among the first Americans to go to California in the gold rush. In his memoirs he has stories about Jackson County lawsuits.

One I recall has to do with someone being accused of selling whiskey to an Indian, which was against the law.

The store had a large container of whiskey and the customer would bring his own bottle, which the storekeeper would fill up using a ladle. The eyewitness in the case had been in line and saw the storekeeper fill the Indian's bottle. He had also bought whiskey and could testify that the liquid in his bottle had been whiskey. The storekeeper was acquitted because the witness had not actually tasted the liquid in the Indian's bottle.

30 posted on 06/10/2022 2:47:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: BAW

“Geico ordered to pay Missouri woman $5.2 million after she contracted STD in a car”

Geico needs to hire cheaper whores.


31 posted on 06/10/2022 3:01:52 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: GaltAdonis

I can’t see that picture without hearing this tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gy_zq_YuQQ


32 posted on 06/10/2022 3:02:55 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: BAW

Trial Lawyers.

When shtf, have a couple on your list.


33 posted on 06/10/2022 3:12:35 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: BAW

This story changes the meaning of “deep pockets”...


34 posted on 06/10/2022 3:52:04 PM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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To: BAW

What was the Make and Model of the car?

There are deeper pockets than Geico.


35 posted on 06/10/2022 4:14:16 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance)gg g)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

wow you mean all I have to do to become a millionaire is get some girl with a relatively harmless std to have sex with me in a car with no protection?
= = =

OK

The hot-crazy graph just went 3D with a new axis.


36 posted on 06/10/2022 4:17:45 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance)gg g)
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To: BAW

If they extend this to house insurance as well, good luck affording the premiums.


37 posted on 06/10/2022 4:22:46 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: subterfuge
What does the car have to do with it?

It was the means of transmission.

Thanks folks, I'll be here all night - try the veal.

38 posted on 06/10/2022 4:32:53 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Repeat Offender

Respect!


39 posted on 06/10/2022 5:33:40 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Like its the guns that kill people not people, insane


40 posted on 06/11/2022 3:23:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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