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Originally Posted by leonk19
Would your opinon change if that extremely hot coffee (which btw, that specific mcdonalds restaurant was warned countless times, even by employees that the coffee was too hot) was being carried by this lady, and someone accidently bumped into her and all this coffee spilt onto the head of a 10 year old boy, causing skin grafts to be needed all over his head and upper body? I'm sure if that happened people wouldn't have much sympathy for Mcdonalds. Fact of the matter is, Mcdonalds was careless in making the coffee TOO hot and was held liable, it's pretty simple.
I thought the settlement was ridiculous at first too but then when I thought about it and took a business law class I understood more. If i remember, this was an older lady to begin with, but if she was younger, I'm pretty sure she would have been unable to have children anyway because of what happened.
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That didn't happen so no point in discussing what ifs. Coffee is hot.....tea is even hotter....it is not suppose to be placed between ones legs...do you think a label on the cup saying HOT would have prevented the incident? I think not.