This smells of Insurance industry propaganda. For one, that lady didn’t “successfully sue McDonalds” for that amount. In the end she got enough to pay for her surguries to remove the pantyhose that melted to her legs from the coffee that was “too hot”.
Every one of those “awards” is bogus. Most of them have been around at least as long as the Internet; some predate it.
The Winnebago one I first heard as being 5 vacationing Arabs that rented it.
The link I put to True Stella Awards is for an intermittant newsletter of real, current cases,with the purpose of working toward tort reform.