Posted on 07/19/2006 8:41:45 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
CBS) CHICAGO Starbucks may pride itself on serving its coffee hot, but a woman from the western suburbs has filed a lawsuit saying her drink was too hot.
Carrie Hernandez said in a lawsuit that a male worker at the Starbucks at 1560 Premium Outlets Blvd. in Aurora spilled and splashed hot coffee on her on Dec. 11, 2004.
The lawsuit claimed Hernandez suffered suffered "severe and permanent injuries" from the coffee spill, the suit says, which have caused her "great pain and suffering, both physical and mental."
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Wasn't there a similar lawsuit against McDonald's?
Sorry baby. You will never live on Rodeo Drive : )
Yep, but the McDonald's woman spilled it on herself.
We need a hunting season for lawyers. Just buy the license. No bag limit.
Yeah, and they settled for 660,000. I doubt that they would again. That lady was 80 years old.
This is the kind of unadulterated BS that makes America great!
My God, it took this woman a year and half to file a lawsuit about too hot coffee? Perhaps it took her that long to find a shyster to take the case?
Yes, and AFAICT, McDonalds deserved to lose it too. Turns out they got off really easy.
Thank our great judicial system and its hoards of corrupt lie-yers for this kind of crap. Frivolous law is what puts many hundreds, if not more, of lie-yers in every phone book in the country. A self-feeding scam.
You're right..but the knee jerk reactions just keep on going....
Yea mental pain. I'm suing too, these lawsuits are giving me a headache
And now she wants a million gazillion dollars because some minimum wage kid spilled a little coffee in her lap.
Well it's a tough old life and we all carry scars.
Hernandez, as the man said, if God had wanted you to live on Rodeo Drive, He would have put you there already.
As for me, I'd accept the apology and order the roast duck with mango salza.
Well if all this is true and the coffee really was too hot and she was badly scalded by an employee she SHOULD get her medical bills paid. $30,000 is not outrageous but maybe she should not get that much. What's wrong with suing a company that injures you??? That's the risk of being in business. I thought we were all conservatives here.
I received 2nd degree burns on the back of my thumb and hand when a coffee was handed to me at a London Heathrow cafe' - the lid was not secured.
Now for the shocking bit - I put it down to bad luck and haste and vowed to check lids on hot things before picking them up. In other words, live and learn.
It's called foresight and hindsight. Many without the former think that the latter should always work out in their favor.
Agreed. Businesses, just like individuals, need to take responsibility for their actions. The line about not warning her it was hot is just silly, but there is no comparison with the McDonalds case.
What business are you in?
Until Americans learn to take responsibility for their own actions, trial lawyers are going to keep bankrupting the sources of revenue in this country.
Grow up!
Follow the money....that's what the problem is.
No she wants $30,000 dollars and if he scaled her with coffee that was too hot then good business practice and fairness dictates that she should have her medical bills paid by the business who did it. Of course she not get a million dollars but maybe a thousand would do it. It is common practice to inflate the money amount demanded. She and her lawyer probably do not expect to get $30,000.
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