Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list of other national chains still do. Funny how you don't read about similar lawsuits.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > > 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 w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:322451 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
