Unbelievable! The court system at work!

[Starless]

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/geico-ordered-pay-5-2m-170300926.html

[McLovin]

So many weird things about that story.
Who carries $5 million of auto liability coverage?? Because it seems any award against the insurance company would be capped at the policy limit.
Also, it seems like it’s the result of a rogue arbitrator in a binding arbitration.
One of the risks of agreeing to a binding arbitration.

[masraum]

that's really farked up

[john70t]

https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
Apr 05, 2021 · HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.

[A930Rocket]

So if I get VD doing the dirty deed on a mattress at a hotel or someone’s house, can I sue the mattress maker?

[A930Rocket]

Didn’t they come out with a vaccine for HPV 30 years or so ago?

Originally Posted by john70t

https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
Apr 05, 2021 · HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Starless

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/geico-ordered-pay-5-2m-170300926.html

That's ridiculous.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Didn’t they come out with a vaccine for HPV 30 years or so ago?

Yes but you have to get it in your teens / early adulthood. Both men and women can get the vaccine. Guys can get throat cancer from it.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by aigel

Yes but you have to get it in your teens / early adulthood. Both men and women can get the vaccine. Guys can get throat cancer from it.

I don’t remember their ages, but both of our kids got it.

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by McLovin

So many weird things about that story.
Who carries $5 million of auto liability coverage?? Because it seems any award against the insurance company would be capped at the policy limit.
Also, it seems like it’s the result of a rogue arbitrator in a binding arbitration.
One of the risks of agreeing to a binding arbitration.

The actual opinion-https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=187183

The 5.2 million judgement is not against GEICO. Its against Geico's insured, who agreed to arbitrate the woman's claims. Geico intervened (McLovin knows what that is, for the rest, its a legal process where someone who has an interest in a case is allowed to participate even where not initially named a party). Geico's insured lost. Geico appealed. Appeals court tossed. But the judgement is only against the insured, not Geico.
Geico has a related federal declaratory judgement case seeking to determine that it doesn't cover sex acts in its insured vehicle. In any event, it can't be on the hook for more than its policy limits...

So, fake news.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

So if I get VD doing the dirty deed on a mattress at a hotel or someone’s house, can I sue the mattress maker?

Only if you prove you are not a bottom-crawling gigolo who does it 20 times a week with a hundred different women,
That there could be no other possible source for the STD, evar.
(Even the bus or coffee shop)
That you sustained substantiated great permanent and financial harm to your golden tool, equal to five mil or so,
Which affects your livelihood as a gigolo.

I have no love for insurance companies, especially Geico and others who deny claims to put into their ad budget, but legal decisions like these are what ruins business and makes all insurance more expensive.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

So if I get VD doing the dirty deed on a mattress at a hotel or someone’s house, can I sue the mattress maker?

Is the tag still on?

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by aigel

Yes but you have to get it in your teens / early adulthood. Both men and women can get the vaccine. Guys can get throat cancer from it.

And penis cancer if you are uncircumcised