The civil justice system was originally designed to help injured people receive compensation for property damage and medical bills and to require the party who caused the damage to pay that compensation. But once the corrosive power of large sums of money enters the picture, the system cannot help but be skewed.

Take for instance the recent case of a woman who sued a car insurance company because she contracted a sexually transmitted disease during a backseat tete-a-tete. The Missouri court held that the injury did in fact occur in the car and upheld the award of $5.2 million. I will bet that your car insurance company does not list sexually transmitted disease as a covered risk. Nonetheless, look for your car insurance rates to go up as the insurance companies try to figure out how much to set aside for romantic liaisons! This case will certainly encourage other trial attorneys to take on similar cases.