Off-Topic BEWARE: Chicken Nugget

[Empirical Cane]

Florida family awarded $800K after McDonald's Chicken McNugget burned 4-year-old girl

Florida jurors awarded Philana Holmes and her daughter Olivia Caraballo $800,000 after she argued a McDonald's Chicken McNugget left her daughter with serious burns.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[JD08]

I never trusted them.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2813%2900396-3/fulltext

 

[ben]

I never trusted them.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2813%2900396-3/fulltext

All that work when all you need to do is grill sweetbreads

 

[JD08]

All that work when all you need to do is grill sweetbreads

And get more vitamins and minerals in the process.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

You honestly need to be Punched in the Thorax for eating that Garbage...

 

[SpikeUM]

If you were on the jury, what would you have voted for?

 

[Citizen Cane]

You honestly need to be Punched in the Thorax for eating that Garbage...

Right in the Xiphoid process

 

[hotshot]

Reminds me of this case from 1992:

In 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck bought a cup of takeout coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Albuquerque and spilled it on her lap. She sued McDonald’s and a jury awarded her nearly $3 million in punitive damages for the burns she suffered.

Typical reaction: Isn’t coffee supposed to be hot? And McDonald’s didn’t pour the coffee on her, she spilled it on herself (taking the lid off)!

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Reminds me of this case from 1992:

In 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck bought a cup of takeout coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Albuquerque and spilled it on her lap. She sued McDonald’s and a jury awarded her nearly $3 million in punitive damages for the burns she suffered.

Typical reaction: Isn’t coffee supposed to be hot? And McDonald’s didn’t pour the coffee on her, she spilled it on herself (taking the lid off)!

We have already discussed this at great length somewhere else on this board.

She was sitting in a bucket seat, with her seatbelt on (as she should have, for safety purposes). The McDonald's coffee was MUCH hotter than it should have been, and McDonald's had prior knowledge of the issue. The woman suffered serious burns on her inner thighs and other lady-parts.

Her initial request of McDonald's was ONLY to pay for the actual medical expenses, and McDonald's refused that reasonble settlement offer.

And the punitive damages were REDUCED by the judge in a post-trial motion called remittitur.

 

[ben]

If you were on the jury, what would you have voted for?

i think the $156k mcdonalds offered is fair

 

[TheOriginalCane]

i think the $156k mcdonalds offered is fair

For which case, the chicken nugget case?

 

[ben]

For which case, the chicken nugget case?

Yes

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Yes

Fair enough.

Yeah, the difference between $156K and $800K, once you factor in the time and expense of a lawsuit, as well as attorney's fees, is minimal, and the case should have settled out for an amount closer to the low end (and which insurance would have covered).

I'd be curious to find out if there was similar evidence regarding whether McD's knew, or should have known, that the food was just way too hot.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Fair enough.

Yeah, the difference between $156K and $800K, once you factor in the time and expense of a lawsuit, as well as attorney's fees, is minimal, and the case should have settled out for an amount closer to the low end (and which insurance would have covered).

I'd be curious to find out if there was similar evidence regarding whether McD's knew, or should have known, that the food was just way too hot.

I'm going to head to drive through with no pants on.

60ct party platter you McDonald's ********.

One of them has to be my lucky nugget.

 

[SpikeUM]

I would have voted for a zero offer, bogus lawsuit to me

 

[Atom Atlas]

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

If you were on the jury, what would you have voted for?

Death penalty (for plaintiff).

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I'm going to head to drive through with no pants on.

60ct party platter you McDonald's ********.

One of them has to be my lucky nugget.

Don't forget to take pictures...




(for the lawsuit, of course...)

 

[SpikeUM]

Death penalty (for plaintiff).

Lawyer is an ambulance chaser too

 

[SpikeUM]