No, the person was in no danger from being scalded on the thighs. My cousin was on the team of lawyers suing McDonalds.
The State of Oregon required at the time that anyone selling “hot” coffee had to dispense it above a certain temperature.
Looks like you are talking about a different incident. I was referencing the 1992 incident in New Mexico. She was hospitalized inpatient for more than a week the injuries were so severe.
The media portrayed that as someone who just negligently spilled coffee on herself and frivolously sued because it was “hot”... Even if she was careless to an extent, a restaurant should probably not be handing something out that is so hot as to be potentially lethal.