Reply #24: Let me tell you something about that [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

McDonald's coffee suit, because I'm fucking sick and tired of the wingers using that as their prime example all these years.

McDonald's had been previously warned many times that their coffee temperatures were much hotter than normal, beyond the normal guidelines. Even people who were careful with their coffee were getting burns. But they paid very little, if any, attention, as most corporations that you love to bow before are wont to do. The woman in that suit had suffered very severe burns over a large area of both her legs and groin. The experts involved and her doctors all said that the burns should not have been that severe if the coffee was at the temperature it should have been, under normal guidelines. The woman incurred tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, even with insurance, and suffered severe pain for months, especially during the treatment, as well as permanent scarrring.

When the jury heard the evidence that Mickey D's had been warned many times previously about it, by their OWN people, no less, as well as others, and saw the extent of the damage and suffering, they awarded the woman's medical bills and then the amount MD's was ordered to pay was the amount of approximately ONE DAY'S coffee profits. Period. Nothing else but one day's coffee profits. As it should have been.

So stick it if you're gonna use that as an example. Under your leadership based on your posts, banksters would have free rein no matter what they did while everything would be the ocnsumer's fault, bad doctors could practice with impunity while their victims could go to hell, and the hell with teachers and blue-collar workers.