“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 Globe and Mail]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on December 28, 2009
“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 Globe and Mail]
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What constitutes an “accident” within the eyes of the several courts is not intuitively obvious! See http://openjurist.org/214/f3d/293/brandi-wallace-v-korean-air
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