Another example of how the judiciary in this craphole is the greatest threat to America.
I don’t mind seeing Starbucks losing in court.
Starbucks didn’t learn from the McDonalds lawsuit over hot coffee from days of yore.
I’m sorry, but if you’re too mentally compromised to be able to figure out that scalding hot coffee gripped between your thighs while driving is a bad idea, then you honestly have no business driving (or reproducing for that matter).
Did he show the jury his before and after pictures?
Being judged by a jury of ones' peers has risks when the jury has a below 80 IQ
Case settled for less than $600k.
Should have been nothing.
‘Tort reform’ was a big talking point years ago that just sorta evaporated from the discussion.
Tea is 212 degrees at best. It quickly cools. You can add water or even ask to add water if you want it slightly cooler. This is totally ridiculous. It happened to McDonald’s as well. I figure the Starbucks attorney screwed up, or they got a ridiculous judge. I assume it will be overturned.
"Flagrant" would be if the Starbucks dead-ender threw a pot of hot tea in the complainant's face. As it is, spills happen, part of life's rich tapestry and all.
A handsome payout, to be sure, if the clumsy complainant collects. Still, I'd be too embarrassed to bring suit were I in the situation.
I don’t want tea. I want a cup of plasma, at about 13,500 degrees (F).
“..who underwent skin grafts”
Bullsh** When I was a kid I jumped on a counter top in our kitchen and knocked over a kettle of boiling water and it went down my arm to my chest. I didn’t have any skin grafts, all I got was huge blisters and slight scars. And that water was as hot as it could get.
DO NOT POUR HOT DRINKS OVER YOUR GENITALS.
This has been a public service announcement.
Stupidity being rewarded.
Darwin would not approve.
As a result we’ve become a nation of the least fit.
No beverage presented for consumption to a customer should be that hot.
No food either. Nothing.
It is totally irresponsible to serve something so hot. Should a dish “call” for it like a flambé or something it should be clearly visible as flames are.
A tea is ordered to be drunk, not sit and cool for fifteen minutes. Fifty million is 49 million too much but still no restaurant of any kind should be serving lava.
Had you tried to sip it you’d have lost your lips
Another example where a Jury needs to go to prison for playing stupid games with the legal system.
There were two purposes for this, first to avoid the coffee getting so hot it was dangerous. The other was to avoid the pot from boiling dry and getting so hot, from remaining on the burner getting heated past 212F, to the point where the pot itself was dangerous and could cause burns if touched.
Then the plaintiffs introduced photographic evidence that the self-serve pot could not be seen from behind the staff counter, so they could never see what its coffee level was. So it was physically impossible to obey McDonalds' own regulations for the self-serve coffee pot at the location it was when the injured plaintiff poured her coffee.
The case immediately settled and the self-serve pot's location was moved to where the staff could see it.
$1 burned crotch surcharge should take care of that.