Quote Originally Posted by Gooftroop5 View Post
Look at the one that got burned with their coffee because they were an idiot & won the big lawsuit against McDonalds.
1. She was elderly and a passenger, not driving.
2. The car was stopped.
3. She was trying to remove the lid to put sugar in the coffee. (How often do we all do this?) It was jammed on pretty tight and the cup jiggled when it popped off.
4. The coffee was superheated, to the point where it gave her third degree burns. McDonalds had plenty of warning that this had caused many prior serious injuries. This was a deciding factor for the jury, because it was not your everyday cup of hot coffee.
5. Even at that, the court reduced the award considerably after the fact, which people seldom hear about.
6. People love to bandy this story around as 'proof' of frivolous suits without really knowing the facts.

Having said all that, I'll ask people to please not turn this thread into a bash of 'frivolous' lawsuits. Let's keep the discussion to this particular incident, which seems to have its own bizaar set of facts.