Lainey knows that she has genital herpes and is not taking medications nor precautions to not spread it to her boyfriend, Steven. She also did not tell him that she had been diagnosed with it$.$ Steven contracted it and found out that Lainey knew this was likely going to happen. He broke up with her. Steven came to your firm to see if he could sue Lainey for battery. In your state, battery is a harmful or offensive touch with the intent to make the contact, the contact happens, and legal harm occurs. At a minimum, legal harm is someone being offended. Your attorney has asked you to answer this question.