measures?
I am a lawyer too. I totally agree with this below assessment. Large
corporations are very good at spinning the "facts" to blame attorneys
for being greedy, when in reality, the corporations get by with an
awful lot of harm to consumers in order to save money.
"John F. Thomas, Jr., Esq." <jfthomas3@c...> wrote:>Just out of
curiosity, and speaking as an attorney, in what way was
McDonald's negligent?
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
While the McDonald's case is often held up as a "poster child" for
frivolous litigation, it really had a basis in fact, and wasn't
frivolous at all.
Basically put, to save money by allowing them to use cheaper beans, and
to shorten brewing time, McDonalds brewed their coffee at a much, much
higher temperature than coffee is normally made. The 30 degrees or so
of temperature difference from normal coffee was enough to make the
difference between someone just getting scalded or a first degree burn,
and someone getting second or third-degree, full-thickness burns.
The woman in question suffered third degree burns to her crotch,
requiring skin grafts.
Now, everyone expects coffee to be hot. But you don't expect it to be
SO hot that if you spill it on yourself, you're going to be in the
hospital for 3 months... and they didn't warn her it was that hot.
McD's knew that their coffee had caused injuries -- over 700 of them.
They knew that it was hotter than normal coffee. They chose to brew it
that way to save money -- KNOWING that it posed a risk to consumers.
Now, does that sound like a frivolous lawsuit? No, not to me either.
The jury award of punitive damages was excessive. But it was also
reduced by the Court... the woman got about $500,000 -- which I can
tell you isn't that much for such a horrible injury.
Know the facts before you perpetuate the myths.
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Date: Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:17pm
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