Originally posted by B and M
Im not too sure she will lose. Only in america can you sue for spilling hot coffee in your lap, get hit by a train by having sex on the tracks, and for drying your hair in the bathtub with an electric hair drier and WIN. There was a lady who went to a mcdonalds about 20 miles from my house and ordered a coffee and places it between her knees, driving out she hits a speed bumb, opening it and burning her. She sued the company for 3 mil and won. Our country fails.
she didnt win that money on account of her spilling coffee on her thighs. that's a myth .the case to which you refer involved much much more. she didnt sue the comapny for much more than what it cost for her treatment, which was no where near 100 thousand dollars, let alon 3 million . mc donalds was found negligent in that they kept their coffee far too hot in order to raise the " aromatic factor of it ' the lawsuit involved the fact that the burns she'd recived would not have happened if the coffee had been at responsible temperatures. mc donalds refused to pay her for her initial claim, which, while she shouldn't have spilled it on herself, the coffee was hot enough to actually give her burns no coffee should have given. after mc donalds refused to claim responsibility for the severity of the burns she recieived punitive charges were pressed against them , they came close to about 1.6 million and she probabally got much much less.
. this story is over used and invalid,and like in most cases where people bring it up, totally false in many ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v. ... estaurants KOOL AID DRINKER FAIL !!!!!