The injuries were severe but it was her own fault. It is ludicrous to say that there needs to be a warning label stating that hot coffee is hot.
Hot coffee is hot. Groundbreaking stuff right there.
It is too bad she is not competent enough to drink coffee without spilling it. Not my problem
Those are bad burns. But it’s hot coffee. I don’t want to be forced to drink tepid coffee because 1 in 24 million gets burned. This is as frivolous a law suit as it ever was.
I’m sure that some have choked to death on a Big Mac but that doesn’t mean McDonalds needs to puree them in a blender.
It also helped her son was a lawyer.
Upworthy is a left-wing website. I will pass on giving them a click.
She seems like a ‘nice’ little old lady. And I hate that she injured herself.
But people injure themselves all the time, and it isn’t always someone else’s fault - to the tune of $500,000.
Stella says she “didn’t sue for the money,” but that BULL****.
She was injured. And she thought that pain gave her the right to injure someone else.
The new ‘morality’ of our secular society.
Coffee is hot, who knew?
I believe part of the problem is that the Styrofoam cups are very unstable when the lids are removed.
Had more to do with her advanced age than the coffee. At that point in life we are all much more susceptible to a scalding.
This like buying a new fixed blade knife from Buck Knives, sitting on it and then suing Buck for the injuries. Utterly stupid.
Eventually, the award was reduced and settled out of court for a mid-six-figure sum. But Liebeck’s legacy (she died in 2004)
reduced on appeal to less than $500,000. (The case was later settled for an undisclosed amount.)
http://sciencecorruption.com/pix/liebeck_thighs.jpg
I ordered coffee with a meal at a restaurant. The coffee came first and I drank most of that cup before the meal arrived.
I took a few bites of my meal and then took another drink of coffee. I hadn't made much note of the fact that the waitress had just topped off my cup.
The new coffee was so much hotter than the first cup had been that I inadvertently took a big swallow instead of a cautious sip. I was very near the point of having to spit out the coffee due to being so hot.
The heat had been excessive enough that I was unable to taste my meal and my mouth felt burned for the next day or so.
Restaurants not only need to control the temperature of their coffee but they need to avoid serving coffee with such variation in temperature that the customer is lulled into hurting themselves and losing the value of the meal.
