Canada: STDs not insurable “accident”

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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1 VMS 12.28.09 at 1:08 pm

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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