Posted on 04/21/2021 5:29:16 PM PDT by lightman
A Vineland man has sued an employee and manager of a local Dunkin’ Donuts after he says he was burned by a cup of coffee that spilled on his lap last year while he was going through the restaurant’s drive-thru, according to the suit filed earlier this year.
The man, Leonard Allen, is also suing Dunkin’ Donuts Inc., in addition to the manager and employee of the Vineland coffee shop located at 709 E. Chestnut Ave.
The incident happened on Aug. 25 when an unnamed female employee “without any due caution” served him a “scalding hot” medium coffee “in a manner as to spill the entirety of the liquid on Plaintiff’s lap and causing immediate and agonizing pain to Plaintiff’s thigh and groin area,” according to the suit, which was filed in Cumberland County Superior Court on Feb. 18.
The suit claims the employee acted in a “negligent and careless manner as she failed to properly secure the cup and lid of the beverage.”
Allen suffered second degree burns to his “persons and other personal injuries of both temporary and permanent nature,” the suit claims. As a result, he will “be compelled to expend large sums of money for physicians and medical treatment in an attempt to cure himself of said injuries and has been prevented from attending to his normal business and affairs, and has suffered various other economic and noneconomic damages,” it claims.
The suit asks for compensation to “reasonably and properly compensate” Allen, including interest and court costs.
A spokeswoman for Dunkin’ Donuts said the company had no comment as the outcome of the suit was still pending.
Didn’t Sienfeld cover this already??
I thought in the McDonald’s case the top was put on properly but she had put the cup in her lap and the top came off.
McDonalds appealed but it was denied because the temperature was ridiculously hot per corporate policy and the woman sustained some significant gyno injuries.
Oh, it was too hot, but it didn't take too long.
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You burnt my willy
But what a thrilly
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
You treat every firearm as if it's loaded. That's the rule.
Accordingly, you treat every coffee as if it's scalding hot and the lid is unsecured.
I believe McDonalds presented a defense that was very arrogant and belittling of the scalded woman, which swayed the jurors.
Sorry, that’s ship has sailed.
LOL
"I am shocked and chagrined,
mortified and stupefied."
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