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re: Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget....
Posted on 7/22/23 at 4:26 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Posted on 7/22/23 at 4:26 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
The hot coffee story I was told was more to it than just hot coffee. Sure coffee is hot. We all like it hot. But I heard it was damn near boiling. Caught the customer by surprise.
Who knows. I could never sue over this kind of bs.
Soft arse Americans wanting handouts
Who knows. I could never sue over this kind of bs.
Soft arse Americans wanting handouts
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Posted on 7/22/23 at 4:28 pm to nitwit
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But the damage award was plainly excessive and likely to be adjusted.
Even the Liebeck coffee verdict got hit with remittitur, the punitives were reduced from $2.7 million to under $500k.
Posted on 7/22/23 at 4:33 pm to nitwit
Much of the cynicism about plaintiffs personal injury awards is well earned by the personal injury bar and by billboard lawyers, in particular.
But they could not succeed if was not for the excesses of insurance claims adjusters who likewise try to take advantage of people.
The McDonald's coffee case is supposed to be Exhibit A for tort reform but the result in that case was probably right.
McDonalds really had no excuse for serving coffee that hot and the girl was hospitalized for eight days and had two years of skin graft surgery. She was permanently disfigured. The case settled for less than a million dollars after the jury award was reduced.
BUT, here's the thing: the girl's parents offered to settle the whole case for 20k, the cost of her medical alone, and McD's told them to pound sand. They had no choice but to litigate.
But they could not succeed if was not for the excesses of insurance claims adjusters who likewise try to take advantage of people.
The McDonald's coffee case is supposed to be Exhibit A for tort reform but the result in that case was probably right.
McDonalds really had no excuse for serving coffee that hot and the girl was hospitalized for eight days and had two years of skin graft surgery. She was permanently disfigured. The case settled for less than a million dollars after the jury award was reduced.
BUT, here's the thing: the girl's parents offered to settle the whole case for 20k, the cost of her medical alone, and McD's told them to pound sand. They had no choice but to litigate.
Posted on 7/22/23 at 5:06 pm to Obtuse1
Yep.
The result was probably about right.
The system usually works.
Not always, but usually.
However, as always, those with the most money to litigate tend to have the advantage.
The result was probably about right.
The system usually works.
Not always, but usually.
However, as always, those with the most money to litigate tend to have the advantage.
Posted on 7/22/23 at 6:42 pm to dallastigers
so your position is that McDonalds can serve food to you at any temperature and you’re responsible to make sure it’s safe to eat.
i can pay someone for food but it’s not their responsibility to make sure it’s safe to eat.
you are morally against requiring a restaurant to make sure it doesn’t serve food that’s so hot it’s not only inedible but dangerous.
i can pay someone for food but it’s not their responsibility to make sure it’s safe to eat.
you are morally against requiring a restaurant to make sure it doesn’t serve food that’s so hot it’s not only inedible but dangerous.
This post was edited on 7/22/23 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 7/22/23 at 7:19 pm to SammyTiger
You just keep throwing out crap and avoiding.
When you want to stop avoiding answering the questions I included and kept including in my responses that were nice enough to ignore your straw man nonsense let me know.
When you want to stop avoiding answering the questions I included and kept including in my responses that were nice enough to ignore your straw man nonsense let me know.
Posted on 7/22/23 at 8:30 pm to dallastigers
nothing I am asking is straw man nonsense
if you want to know how legal negligence is established you have to ask what’s the duty of McDonalds.
Do you think McDonalds has 0 dury to serve safe food?
also you made a huge assumption that the current system works. like no one has ever been burned by McDonalds.
if you want to know how legal negligence is established you have to ask what’s the duty of McDonalds.
Do you think McDonalds has 0 dury to serve safe food?
also you made a huge assumption that the current system works. like no one has ever been burned by McDonalds.
Posted on 7/22/23 at 10:49 pm to SammyTiger
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You keep avoiding the real question, should restaurant be service people food that’s way too hot to eat and will injure them without at least a warning?
I don’t think fast food restaurants should hold someone up in the drive thru while food that just came out of the fryer cools off.
Food is really hot when it comes out of a deep fryer. Every adult who has ever eaten fried food knows that. If it just came out of the fryer, it’s going to have to cool off one way or another. I’d rather them give it to me so I can be on my way than sit there and wait for some McDonald’s employee to deem it safe. I suspect every other honest adult likely feels the same.
I have a 3 year old child. Whenever we get McD’s, CFA, etc. we always check to make sure it’s cooled off enough to eat before giving it to her. We do the same when we cook food for her at the house. That is a very basic parenting task.
This is not at all the same as the coffee lawsuit. In that case, McDonald’s was intentionally storing coffee at ridiculously high temperatures. The coffee was way hotter than it would have been anywhere else. In this case, the food was hot because it just came out - just like it would have been at literally any other restaurant serving fried food that just came out.
Yeah, maybe this leads to McDonald’s adding some sort of “caution: hot” label just like they did with the coffee. But does anyone really believe the outcome would have been any different if such a label was on the happy meal box?
Posted on 7/23/23 at 12:30 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Im at the point in life where I honestly hope her parents get hit by a car now. Im so sick of shite like this
Posted on 7/23/23 at 3:09 am to lostinbr
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I have a 3 year old child. Whenever we get McD’s, CFA, etc. we always check to make sure it’s cooled off enough to eat before giving it to her.
This. When my kids were little and the food at the drive-thru was too hot (easily determined by any vigilant parent) we told them it was too hot and they could have it when it cooled down. Whoever handed the 3 yr old 200° nuggets is the negligent party, not who cooked it.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 3:26 am to LSUJML
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At least it sounds like the money will go to the kid & not the parents
How much of that does the lawyer get?
Posted on 7/23/23 at 3:30 am to MikeBRLA
Why the frick is McDonald’s serving food that can leave you with a third degree burn?
Posted on 7/23/23 at 3:31 am to Lawyered
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Mom just hands the happy meal box with the scorching nuggets. Girl drops a nugget and it gets pinned between the carseat and her leg and either the girl didn’t or couldn’t notify the mom anything was wrong or negligence by the mom to not know something was wrong as she was burned for several minutes apparently $800,000 is absurd . Just clown world
I do remember hearing about this and the coffee case does seem to be a lot worse.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 7:23 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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The jury in Broward County
I’ve found the problem
Posted on 7/23/23 at 12:19 pm to justaniceguy
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Why the frick is McDonald’s serving food that can leave you with a third degree burn?
don’t ask that question parents are responsible for this.
mcDonalds can serve you lava in a cup if they want.
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