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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lon Chaney, post: 1228583, member: 29844&quot;]This lawsuit is often used as a &quot;stupid person wins ridiculous lawsuit&quot; scenario, but you have to look into it.&nbsp; Been a while since I read up on this, but let me see what I remember about it.&nbsp; The coffee at that McDonalds was about 20-30 degrees hotter than other fast food places keep it, and much hotter (50-60 degrees?) than it is when you make it at home.&nbsp; The spilled coffee caused the woman to require multiple skin grafts because the burns were so severe.&nbsp; A reasonable person would not expect to need 3 surgeries when spilling a coffee.&nbsp; Also, the woman just asked McDonalds to pay for medical bills only, which was something like $10,000. McDonalds countered with a ridiculous offer, something like $500.&nbsp; So they took it to court to get the medical bills paid for, and the jury added a large pain and suffering award to the small medical bill cost.&nbsp; </p><p>So the case isn&#039;t as cut and dry as you may thing after reading an abstract or just a headline on yahoo.com.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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