CC> I'm sorry, please understand that this reply, even though not
CC> intentional,  may be baised because I am now a McD employee.  What 
CC> medical damage?  Who of us have nopt actually burned  themselfes
CC> with coffee.  I've done it plenty of times  including on a part I
RT> Did you realize that she recieved severe burns in her
RT> genital area (the part that you can't mention)?  Bottom line
I don't buy it and have never seen any evidence of it. 
RT> is that the coffee in that particular Mickey Dees *was*
RT> overheated.  Was she careless driving off with it between
The hottest you can heat it is 212 F (OK, a little more
because of the impurities in the water) MD's coffees
are at most 6 ozs.  Pour 6 ozs of hot water on your
crotch and its going to hurt.  The odds are you are
going to wind up with some 1st degree burns (i.e.
similar to a sunburn) but that's it!
Even if you soak a towel in boiling water and put it on
your body you are not going to wind up $200,000 worth
of medical cost.
Of course you ain't going to be want get frisky with
the wife for a while :).
RT> her legs?  Yes.  Was Mickey Dees negligent in the
RT> temperature of the coffee?  Yes.  Should Mickey Dees have
RT> settled for the original claim?  Yep!  It was chump change
Then why did an appellate judge reduce the settlement?
Because the jury didn't look at the facts and make a
ruling, they looked at a poor old lady fighting the big
evil corporate giant and decided to stick it to the
company.  Whereas the judge looked at the evidence and
the law and ruled.
That's one thing that the news almost NEVER reports.
Most of these multi-million dollar awards are over
turned or significantly reduced on appeal.  I remember
one case where a jury awarded some smuck ten million
dollars in one of these off the wall cases.  On appeal
he got something like one thousand (of which his lawyer
got one third).
Even if you could show me that she was injured there is
no way that you could find MD's anymore then 50% libel.
That would mean that she would have had to have
$400,000 worth of medical cost from 6 ozs of hot water.
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