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Can You Sue Someone For Getting You Sick?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are certain instances where people are likely to file a personal injury lawsuit&period; One of the most common examples is when they’re a roadway accident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For example&comma; if a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;attorneyguss&period;com&sol;common-trucks-on-the-road&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">truck driver is drowsy and collides with vehicles<&sol;a>&comma; then there may be civil action taken in the form of a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Then&comma; there are times when a lawsuit may be warranted&comma; but it’s less obvious or more of an ambiguous area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One example is when someone gives you an illness&period; We’re at a time when the idea of transmittable illnesses is at the forefront of most people’s minds&comma; so can you sue someone for getting you sick&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">To give a general answer&comma; you can <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;wrongful-death-can-file-claim&sol;">file a lawsuit<&sol;a> for anything you want&comma; including someone getting you sick&comma; but that doesn’t mean you should&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Negligence<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">With any personal injury lawsuit&comma; the key term to understand is negligence&period; Negligence and your legal team’s ability to prove it are what’s going to help your case be successful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Negligence is something you have to prove&comma; and the broadest interpretation of negligence is that it’s any action someone takes that falls outside of what is described as reasonable standards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The standards depend a lot on the specifics of the situation and the relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you believe someone got you sick and you want to file a lawsuit&comma; you would have to show negligence&comma; meaning that someone else intentionally got you sick or behaved so negligently that you got sick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In these instances&comma; you would usually bring in professional witness testimony to show that in a similar situation&comma; a reasonable person wouldn’t have behaved the way the defendant did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The issue with the spread of common viruses and bacterial infections is that it’s very challenging to prove someone intentionally got you sick because diseases spread all the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Even in the event that your coworker&comma; as an example&comma; got you sick&comma; and you lost wages or dealt with other financial losses as a result&comma; it would be highly difficult to prove how you got sick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sexually Transmitted Diseases<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A specific area people often ask about as far as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;blogs&period;findlaw&period;com&sol;injured&sol;2014&sol;06&sol;can-you-sue-someone-for-giving-you-an-std&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">civil responsibility and diseases <&sol;a>are with sexually transmitted diseases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In some cases&comma; you may have a successful claim if you’re infected with an STD&period; Again&comma; you would need to show in a negligence case that your partner had a duty to inform you of their STD status&comma; and that duty was breached&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In these cases&comma; what often needs to happen is that the judge or jury must be convinced a reasonable person would have abstained from sex altogether unless notifying their partner of the risk of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;prioritystdtesting&period;com&sol;blog&sol;whats-the-difference-between-an-sti-and-an-std&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">STD infection<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">With a claim regarding someone transmitting something like herpes to you&comma; it may be easier to prove what caused the illness because these diseases only spread through direct sexual contact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It’s also pretty likely that someone who gave another person an STD knew about the status of their condition&comma; or they should have known about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">JetBlue Passenger<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">While it just happened&comma; so we don’t know yet what any of the outcomes of this particular situation will be&comma; it was just announced JetBlue airlines has <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;travel&sol;article&sol;jetblue-passenger-banned-coronavirus-trnd&sol;index&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">put a lifetime ban on a passenger<&sol;a>&period; It relates to the topic athand because the passenger JetBlue is banning flew from New York to Florida while he was waiting on the results of a Coronavirus test&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">He let the crew know after landing that his test was positive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The passenger didn’t let anyone at JetBlue know that he was awaiting Coronavirus results before that&comma; and he left JFK in New York and landed at West Palm Beach&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One the plane landed and the passenger let the crew know he had a positive result&comma; the airline and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started going through security camera footage and cleaning everywhere he went&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The airline released a statement saying that he would not be permitted to fly on Jet Blue in the future because he put everyone in an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unsettling” <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cdc&period;gov&sol;quarantine&sol;aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">situation that could have been avoided<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Only time will tell how Corona virus cases are handled in the civil sense because it is such a new and developing situation&comma; but it does likely have many people wondering about legal recourse if they become ill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It’s a steep burden of proof in instances of many illnesses as far as proving negligence and other legal standards&comma; but not altogether impossible&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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