On 7/1/2010 11:00 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > Putting a cup between your knees is not a really smart thing to do...that is > exerting a lot of pressure from both sides...she probably squeezed it so > much that it collapsed. I would also question the 3rd degree burns. That > would require longer term exposure to the liquid at the high heat. Wouldn't > it rapid cool after being spilled since the water was dispersed over a > larger area? There was just too much in that that didn't ring true to me. > McD's coffee was always a bit too hot, but to claim that as negligence > because you put your cup between your legs to remove the lid...I thought > that was completely ridiculous. This woman was injured because of her own > stupidity.
According to testimony reported in previous links, McD's coffee at the time was held at 185 degrees, plus or minus 5 degrees. Apparently 185 degree liquids can cause 'full thickness', aka 3rd degree burns in as little as 2 seconds. The jury actually partially agree with many here. They held her and McD's jointly responsible. They split it at 20%/80%. If she was the first and only case, this would probably have gone nowhere. One of McD's problems was that it had been settling such cases for years. For some reason the balked at her's 20K case for medical bills so they lost 200K plus 400K damages. What the finally settlement is, nobody but the litigants knows, since afterwords, the privately settled with her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322446 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
