01-16-2004, 12:08 PM
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Originally posted by Prophecy
There was two McDonalds lawsuits, one involved coffee and an older woman. The lady put her coffee between her legs when she was driving, mind you the top was off of the cup and it had steam coming off of it. As the story goes for reason the woman had to stop suddenly, the liquid comes out of the cup and burned her. She sued because no one told her that the coffee was hot. That's why the cups now say caution hot liquid or contents or something like that.
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Please stick to the actual facts please.
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Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in the passenger seat of
her grandson's car when she was severely burned by McDonalds' coffee in
February 1992. Liebeck, 79 at the time, ordered coffee that was served
in a styrofoam cup at the drivethrough window of a local McDonalds.
After receiving the order, the grandson pulled his car forward and
stopped momentarily so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her
coffee. (Critics of civil justice, who have pounced on this case, often
charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in
motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.) Liebeck placed
the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from
the cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the cup spilled
into her lap.
The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next
to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full
thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body,
including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin
areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she
underwent skin grafting. Liebeck, who also underwent debridement
treatments, sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds
refused.
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Third degree burns on 6 percent on your body in two to seven seconds.. no much you can do to stop that.
You usually buy coffee to drink it right away, and therefore keeping the coffee so hot that you would burn your mouth and troath is not reasonable.
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Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin
burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full
thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds. Other testimony
showed that as the temperature decreases toward 155 degrees, the extent
of the burn relative to that temperature decreases exponentially. Thus,
if Liebeck's spill had involved coffee at 155 degrees, the liquid would
have cooled and given her time to avoid a serious burn.
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Link: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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