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Bill Chappell

GEICO may have to pay $5.2 million to a woman who got an STD in an insured car

A woman in Missouri says a man she had sex with in a Hyundai Genesis infected her with HPV through neglect — and she wants his insurance company to cover her medical costs and other damages. Here, Hyundai representatives display the 2014 model of the Genesis. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

The Missouri Court of Appeals is siding with a woman who won a $5.2 million award against GEICO, in a case that centers on a unique auto injury claim: the woman says she contracted a sexually transmitted disease in a Hyundai sedan whose owner was insured by GEICO.

The woman, identified in court papers as M.O., says a man, identified as M.B., infected her with human papillomavirus, or HPV, when they had unprotected sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis.

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