1 The Truth Behind the Infamous McDonalds Hot Coffee Case
- Author: poolelg.com
- Published Date: 06/22/2022
- Review: 4.81 (743 vote)
- Summary: Liebeck was taken to the hospital after the incident, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns on 6% of her skin and lesser burns over
- Matching search results: Of note, the McDonald’s hot coffee case would have never happened in Maryland. Ms. Liebeck wouldn’t have received one penny to compensate her for her terrible and disfiguring injuries suffered at the hands of McDonald’s. The great state of Maryland …
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2 What a lot of people get wrong about the infamous 1994 McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit
- Author: vox.com
- Published Date: 09/07/2022
- Review: 4.7 (589 vote)
- Summary: · Inflicted with some minor burns, she sues McDonald’s, as if she shouldn’t have known that coffee is hot and driving with it in your hand or
- Matching search results: It’s treated as a classic example of judicial overreach and greed: A woman, driving in her car while holding McDonald’s coffee between her legs, spills some of the coffee on herself. Inflicted with some minor burns, she sues McDonald’s, as if she …
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3 The Albuquerque “Hot Coffee Case” Heard Around the World!
- Author: 2keller.com
- Published Date: 08/14/2022
- Review: 4.43 (587 vote)
- Summary: Second, before Stella’s injury, McDonalds was aware of more than 700 similar incidents involving burns to customers from coffee spills. In fact, it was
- Matching search results: (Most people assumed that was the end of the story, but it wasn’t. The fact is that the judge presiding over the case believed that McDonalds had engaged in “willful, wanton, and reckless behavior,” but still decided that Stella would receive less …
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4 McDonalds Coffee Lawsuit: Facts You Probably Didnt Know
- Author: negrettilaw.com
- Published Date: 04/22/2022
- Review: 4.22 (240 vote)
- Summary: · Liebeck was wearing sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and kept it clinging to her skin. Ms. Liebeck suffered third-degree burns on her
- Matching search results: The plaintiff in McDonald’s coffee lawsuit was vilified unnecessarily. The spin that was put on this case by the marketing folks at McDonald’s is awe inspiring. The money that McDonald’s spent to try to convince us that they did nothing wrong — …
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5 The Coffee Case: McDonald’s Got Lucky – MacElree Harvey
- Author: macelree.com
- Published Date: 07/05/2022
- Review: 4.08 (263 vote)
- Summary: movement to stop frivolous lawsuits. People hearing that a woman was burned when she spilled coffee on herself but sued was enough for them to say, that’s
- Matching search results: In 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79 year-old woman, purchased a 49 cent cup of coffee from the drive-thru at the Albuquerque, New Mexico McDonald’s. Stella was seated in the passenger seat and her grandson was driving. They pulled over so that Stella …
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6 Legal Myths: The McDonalds Hot Coffee Case
- Author: citizen.org
- Published Date: 12/07/2021
- Review: 3.97 (431 vote)
- Summary: Newspaper headlines such as “Hot cup of coffee costs $2.9 million,”[2]or “Coffee Spill Burns Woman; Jury Awards $2.9 Million”[3]painted the picture of a
- Matching search results: The jury found that Ms. Liebeck suffered $200,000 in compensatory damages for her medical costs and disability. The award was reduced to $160,000 since the jury determined that 20 percent of the fault for the injury belonged with Ms. Liebeck for …
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7 The Real Story Behind McDonalds Infamous Hot Coffee Case
- Author: enjuris.com
- Published Date: 05/06/2022
- Review: 3.74 (511 vote)
- Summary: Evidence presented at trial showed that McDonald’s required franchisees to keep coffee heated between 180-190 degrees and that the restaurant received more than
- Matching search results: Since the verdict was handed down in 1994, a number of lawsuits have been filed against coffee vendors, including Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Burger King, as a result of coffee-related burns. In most cases, the coffee temperature was not as hot …
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8 Remember the Hot Coffee Lawsuit? It Changed the Way McDonalds Heats Coffee Forever
- Author: rd.com
- Published Date: 01/22/2022
- Review: 3.56 (453 vote)
- Summary: · An elderly woman is burned when she spills a cup of hot coffee on her lap. She sues her way to a $2.7 million jury-awarded jackpot
- Matching search results: At the time, McDonald’s required its franchises to brew its coffee at 195 to 205 degrees and sell it at 180 to 190 degrees, far warmer than the coffee made by most home coffee-brewing machines. That meant that “the coffee in question was brewed at …
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9 The Real Facts of the McDonalds Coffee Case
- Author: deshawlaw.com
- Published Date: 03/13/2022
- Review: 3.24 (432 vote)
- Summary: · McDonalds intentionally made their coffee so hot, they knew it would burn people. You may have heard that the woman who sued McDonalds was
- Matching search results: McDonald’s admitted during discovery that, based on a consultant’s advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure that it would still be hot once a person had driven several miles to work before drinking it. Other …
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