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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on October 09, 2021, 04:17:54 PM

Title: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Lucifer on October 09, 2021, 04:17:54 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/10/09/woman-seeks-1-million-from-geico-after-allegedly-getting-hpv-from-car-sex/?sh=37573e7a2f47
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Jim Logajan on October 09, 2021, 04:31:00 PM
The bio of the author after the end of the story was almost as amusing as the story itself.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 09, 2021, 04:31:03 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/10/09/woman-seeks-1-million-from-geico-after-allegedly-getting-hpv-from-car-sex/?sh=37573e7a2f47
A strange case. But if you are going to sue someone, always look for the deepest pockets.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Anthony on October 10, 2021, 06:29:39 PM
Wait....I could sue????
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 10, 2021, 07:10:18 PM
Wait....I could sue????
This is America. You can pretty much sue anyone for something. Doesn’t mean you will win.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: bflynn on October 11, 2021, 04:27:23 AM
OTOH, she also has advertised nationally that she has an incurable VD.  No sex for her!
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Rush on October 11, 2021, 04:49:11 AM
Who the hell thinks to sue your car insurance company because you chose to have sex in a car?  We need tort reform really badly. Loser pay or something, this is out of control. If she wins all of our premiums go up. It will set a precedent for all kinds of ridiculous suits.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: bflynn on October 11, 2021, 05:08:05 AM
The legal stance is that it's our fault.  If juries would smack these people down more consistently, lawyers would be more hesitant to sink any time into cases like this. 

But I think they're putting too much faith in the populace to be a competent jury.  Too often it's "Well that greedy company is rich, let's force them to share some".
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Rush on October 11, 2021, 05:57:10 AM
The legal stance is that it's our fault.  If juries would smack these people down more consistently, lawyers would be more hesitant to sink any time into cases like this. 

But I think they're putting too much faith in the populace to be a competent jury.  Too often it's "Well that greedy company is rich, let's force them to share some".

Exactly. The person at fault (other than herself) is the guy for not telling her he has HPV. She’d be justified to sue him. But only named the insurance company because that’s where the money was.

The article isn’t totally clear. Maybe she is suing GEICO under the umbrella policy. Maybe it is a general liability and not necessarily an extension of the car policy, in which case it wouldn’t matter where they had sex.  However GEICO seemed to indicate that it does.  Does this mean his umbrella only was an extension of the auto policy?
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: bflynn on October 11, 2021, 07:39:40 AM
You can't get an umbrella insurance claim for hurting yourself. but I think it was the car policy.  She was 100% responsible for her choice to have unprotected sex, she will be lucky if HPV is all she got.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Rush on October 11, 2021, 08:47:47 AM
You can't get an umbrella insurance claim for hurting yourself. but I think it was the car policy.  She was 100% responsible for her choice to have unprotected sex, she will be lucky if HPV is all she got.

I’m not sure protected sex would have saved her. The guy had HPV positive throat cancer. Sounds like she got it from an act not involving the part you put a condom on.
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: jb1842 on October 11, 2021, 11:05:14 AM
....
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Mr Pou on October 11, 2021, 01:12:42 PM
The sad thing is the lizard will probably give her $50k to go away, and that's all she's really looking for anyway. A quick score. I mean monetarily...
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: bflynn on October 12, 2021, 05:21:21 AM
Dental dam?
Title: Re: Blame the Gekko
Post by: Rush on October 12, 2021, 05:40:40 AM
Dental dam?

Who carries those around in their wallet?