Wow, now we have tort reform on the list. Hope this is helping to enhance
our Healey experience.
There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds scalding coffee case. No one is in
favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to
understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the
case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding - capable of almost
instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. There are still many who
don't know the facts about this very old case, and love to use it as their
favorite example when ranting on.
It probably won't matter to those, but 81 year old Stella Liebeck suffered
third degree burns and incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical
costs for the grafts she needed to repair the skin on her groin, inner thighs
and
butt. She just wanted McDonald's to pay for the damage they had caused, but
McDonald's only offered her $800 for $200,000 worth of medical bills. Prior to
Stella Liebeck's scalding McDonald's had already heard about over 700 cases of
people being seriously burned by their coffee, but they continued to serve it
20 degrees hotter than any other major restaurant chain.
See http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
Also http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/MB_mcdonalds.htm
There's your cup o' flame, John. Even though it's not as hot as it was,
don't open it in your lap. :-)
Ginger Corda
BJ8
Florida
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In a message dated 11/1/2006 6:00:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ahbn6@optonline.net writes:
(think of the idiot spilling McDonalds coffee and then having a
jury of idiots give her millions for her stupidity. Medical bills 2K or so,
pain and suffering 2K or so but millions, BS and then complain about the
high cost of insurance - NOT) Because of this lack of common sense, the tort
attorneys are having a field day.
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