Court Pulls Insurance Award In Sex Accident Claim 9
JamJam writes "The Supreme Court of Canada has taken away a $200,000 insurance award made to a Vancouver man who became paralyzed after a series of medical calamities arising from him having unprotected sex. The man was 'accidentally' infected with genital herpes which lead to him being totally paralyzed from his mid-abdomen down. The Supreme Court deemed this a non-accident since the man was was aware that having unprotected sex could result in him contracting a sexually transmitted disease, although he did not actually know that any of the women had genital herpes."
And in other news... (Score:4, Interesting)
This just in, crossing the street can lead to being struck by a moving vehicle. Insurance companies are no longer liable to pay accident victims because they now know crossing the street can be dangerous.
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Read the article. The issue is that an accident policy is not a health policy. Crossing the street can lead to being struck by a moving vehicle, as stated in the article, would be covered by the policy but an illness is not. They went to great lengths to state that the riskiness of the behaviour had no impact in their decision.
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Does this mean that insurance companies don't cover lung cancer treatment for smokers?
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Accident insurance, no. Health Insurance, yes. Getting cancer is not an accident it is an illness. They are different types of insurance and have different premiums.
Typical Inflamitory Slashdot Story. (Score:1)
1. The picture in the story does not relate to the story at all. The illness the man has is in is spinal cord and would not require the bandaging as seen in the picture.
2. The summary states "The Supreme Court deemed this a non-accident since the man was was aware that having unprotected sex could result in him contracting a sexually transmitted disease, although he did not actually know that any of the women had genital herpes" even though the article states "He noted that neither the Court nor the insuran
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The picture in the story does not relate to the story at all.
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