Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 24, 2008
The Supreme Court of Canada agreed yesterday to consider whether a B.C.
man is entitled to $200,000 in disability insurance for being rendered
paraplegic after having unprotected sex. The case pits the Co-operators
Life Insurance Company against Randolph Gibbens, 47, who contracted
genital herpes in 2003. The virus attacked his spine and paralysed him
from his abdomen down. Mr. Gibbens won twice in British Columbia courts,
which acknowledged that his behaviour was foolish, but that he lost the
use of his legs by accident because he could not have anticipated it.
James Morton
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Toronto, Ontario
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