Posted on 06/08/2022 7:58:40 PM PDT by algore
A Missouri woman was awarded a $5.2 million settlement against her ex-boyfriend's car insurance company after she claimed that she got a sexually transmitted disease from him after they had sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis.
On Tuesday, after five years of uncertainty, the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed.
A three-judge panel found that the judgment entered against the insurance giant through earlier arbitration proceedings was valid
Court papers obtained by the DailyMail.com reveal that the woman notified GEICO in February 2021 stating that she and the insured had been in a romantic relationship since 2017.
The woman told the insurance company her intention to seek monetary damages, alleging she contracted HPV, the human papillomavirus, from an insured member in his automobile.
Court documents reveal that in the suit, the woman alleged that her ex-boyfriend, had been told that he had throat cancer tumor and was diagnosed with HPV, yet he continued to have unprotected sex with her knowing the risks.
In May 2021, the arbitrator found that the man and woman had sex inside his vehicle that 'directly caused, or directly contributed to cause' the HPV infection.
The ex-boyfriend was found liable for not disclosing his infection status and the woman was awarded $5.2 million
'If you think about it as an injury sustained while in that person's vehicle, then it totally falls within what an insurance company would be required to pay,' he said.
'Usually, injuries to passengers are the result of a collision, or slamming the door on one's fingers, that sort of thing. But while a lawsuit over contracting an STD from the insured driver may be the first of its kind, this award shows that it's not a stretch for someone to file against an insurance company for any actions occurring in a motor vehicle
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first was the tobacco companies, then the asbestos companies.
I got a back injury going over a speed bump. How much is that worth?
what if she caught it in his house? The home insurer responsible?
And now rates everywhere go up.
My thoughts exactly
Further decline of America.
I’ll claim hearing loss caused by wife’s back seat driving.
unless she was humping the gear shift, the car had nothing to do with it.
deeper pockets on the part of the car insurance company is why the suit exists.
That’s one of the craziest things I have ever heard.
It’s called “Deep Pockets” laws. Liability is based on whatever nearby party has the deepest pockets.
Years ago in Florida a man was using a GTE pay phone. A drunk driver ran up over the curb and creamed him. The court required GTE to pay the injured man most of the $$$ in settlement because GTE had the “deepest pockets”.
I can’t recall any other details and I don’t know where I could dig up said details. I just remember that was when I learned about this unique logic in determining who pays the injured party.
And don’t forget this recent story about a woman giving head to the driver who rammed his SUV into a delivery van...
https://nypost.com/2022/06/03/oral-sex-sends-florida-man-crashing-into-fedex-truck/
From the story: “However, the SUV driver’s penis was “nearly bitten off,” according to the Daily Mail — presumably because the impact caused his companion to bite down.”
If an STD gets 5 million, think what a decapitated (pun intended) penis can bring...
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A California court recently decided that bees are legally considered to be fish.
The Hyundai raped her.
Oral sex sends Florida man crashing into FedEx truck
Yep, that’s pretty crazy too.
“unless she was humping the gear shift, the car had nothing to do with it”
Well, in this case it was claimed that ‘the insured member’ caused the injury
What sort of galactic level stupidity is this???
This country has gone insane.
and all the ones that got knocked up???
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