If you look at the case, the McDonald's employee practically threw it in her lap.
But anyone over the age of three should know that if something's hot, you don't blindly and stupidly gulp it down. You put it close to your mouth, sense the temperature, and ever so lightly sip it. So that crap another poster said about "internal injuries" wouldn't wash with me as a juror.
I thought she was a passenger in the car, is that not true?