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In September 1997 a seventy-three year old woman suffered first and second degree burns when a cup of McDonalds coffee spilled on her lap. McDonalds got punished for serving hot coffee.
McDonalds offered Liebeck a mere 800 so she sued.
Mcdonald sued for hot coffee. Controversy is still brewing over McDonalds hot coffee. Joan Fino a 74-year-old woman from Clovis Calif is the latest to sue the fast food giant over burns to her groin area that she says were caused by scalding McDonalds coffee. About 14 months ago Fino ordered two cups of coffee from a McDonalds drive-thru.
In 1992 79-year old Stella Liebeck became the poster child for frivolous litigation after filing a lawsuit against McDonalds for serving coffee that was too hot. The public generally ridiculed. McDonalds Restaurantsmore commonly known as the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuitis often cited as a classic example of frivolous litigation in the United States.
In much of the publics eye Stella Lieback was a greedy plaintiff who spilled warm coffee on her lap while driving and decided to cash in by suing a big corporation for millions of dollars. McDonalds was unfairly punished for serving hot coffee because everyone knows that hot coffee can cause burns. People did not realize how seriously they could be burned.
All McDonalds restaurants served coffee between 180 and 190 degrees. McDonalds still hasnt learned its lesson. Other people have reported similar injuries after spilling McDonalds coffee.
In September 1997 a seventy-three year old woman suffered first and second degree burns when a cup of McDonalds coffee spilled on her lap. At the time McDonalds still kept its coffee at 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Dont Get Scalded by McDonalds Hot Coffee.
While preparing the hot coffee lawsuit Morgan spoke with expert Dr. Morgan learned that liquid with a temperature of 180-190 could lead to third-degree burns in as little as two to seven seconds and especially so if clothing absorbs the liquid. Back in 1992 as most people tell it a woman ordered a hot coffee at McDonalds spilled it and suffered some minor burns only to turn around sue the popular chain restaurant and get rich on something seemingly frivolous.
McDonalds Restaurants better known as the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit of 1994. Thats when a jury awarded the plaintiff 286 million for burns she received when she accidentally spilled. The hot coffee lawsuit was a 1994 product liability.
Called the case the poster child of excessive lawsuits they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin scalding her thighs buttocks and groin. There was indeed a lawsuit filed against McDonalds for its too- hot coffee. Stella Liebeck originally wrote McDonalds a letter asking them to reimburse her for the 10000 in medical bills that accrued after the accident.
McDonalds offered Liebeck a mere 800 so she sued. She tried to settle out of court but McDonalds refused. Lawyers produced documents that showed between 1983 and 1992 nearly 700 people claimed that they had been burned by hot coffee at McDonalds.
Inflicted with some minor burns she sues McDonalds as if she shouldnt have known that coffee is hot and driving with it in your hand or legs is dangerous. And then she ultimately wins. The lawsuit comes two decades after a New Mexico woman famously sued McDonalds and won a 29 million award for burns she suffered after spilling the fast food chains coffee on.
Twenty five years ago a 79-year-old woman named Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee to go at a McDonalds drive-through in Albuquerque New Mexico and spilled the coffee on her lap. She sued McDonalds and a jury awarded her almost 3 million prompting a media frenzy and a lot of criticism in the court of public opinion. McDonalds Hot Coffee Case - Read the Facts NOT the Fiction.
Provided by the Center for Justice Democracy New York City. The McDonalds coffee case. We have all heard it.
A woman spills McDonalds coffee sues and gets 3 million. Here are the facts of this widely misreported and misunderstood case. McDonalds got punished for serving hot coffee.
Everyone serves hot coffee. Everyone serves hot coffee. McDonalds didnt just serve their coffee hot their operations manual required that is be served between 180 and 190 degrees.
30-40 degrees hotter than other coffee-serving restaurants in the area.