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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.
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This is a remoteness in causation issue, and it would be pretty hard for a plaintiff to prove all the requisite links in the chain. There would be big time trouble proving reasonable forseeability here. Not impossible I suppose, but a pretty tall order.