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A Los Angeles woman is suing McDonalds for allegedly serving her a hot coffee drink that badly burned her. Paulette Carr claims she was injured.
This regularly rolled-out story is often used by people complaining about frivolous lawsuits in America.
Woman sues mcdonalds for hot coffee. 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. The truth behind the hot coffee lawsuit.
The elderly woman who became a punchline had 16 of her body covered in burns and McDonalds had. In 1992 a cup of McDonalds hot coffee spilled on 79-year-old Stella Liebeck in Alburquerque NM. Liebeck who suffered third-degree burns and was hospitalized sued McDonalds and won big – a.
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.
A Los Angeles woman is suing McDonalds for allegedly serving her a hot coffee drink that badly burned her. Paulette Carr claims she was injured. McDonalds Restaurants better known as the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit of 1994.
Thats when a jury awarded the plaintiff 286 million for. Its treated as a classic example of judicial overreach and greed. A woman driving in her car while holding McDonalds coffee between her legs spills some of the coffee on herself.
Selena Edwards isnt the first person to think McDonalds coffee is too hot. Most famously in 1992 79-year-old Stella Liebeck sued the burger chain when she sustained third degree burns after. A woman has filed suit against McDonalds Corp saying she was burned by hot coffee that spilled on her at one of the fast-food chains Los Angeles.
This regularly rolled-out story is often used by people complaining about frivolous lawsuits in America. It goes a woman buys a coffee at McDonalds the lid comes off it spills all over her and she sues for 29m v and wins. Actually the story is kind of true.
The woman did sue but only after she first tried to settle for 10000. Newser A California woman is suing McDonalds for more than 2M over a hot coffee spilland no you arent living in a 1990s time warp. Joan Fino 74 says that coffee she ordered from a.
10 Business section an article about a woman suing McDonalds over burns from a spilled cup of hot coffee said that the injury occurred Jan. So heres the real story about the woman who sued McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself. The woman bought coffee and was in a car that was parked.
She then managed to accidentally spill the coffee on herself but the coffee was served at near boiling temperatures. The woman suffered 3rd degree burns on her legs and genitals and these coffee burns required skin grafts. Due to all.
McDonalds own documents showed that they were aware of over 700 cases where customers were badly burned by the coffee between 1982 to 1992. But it was cheaper to do nothing. Liebeck and her family just wanted McDonalds to cover her medical expenses in relation to this incident.
They werent after some big payday. A cup of coffee is seen on a counter at a McDonalds restaurant in New York Reuters Twenty years after a jury awarded a New Mexico woman. The lawsuit comes 20 years after a jury awarded 29 million to a woman who was badly burned after she spilled hot coffee into her lap at a McDonalds in Albuquerque.