ZeroHedge article with their typical bait title.
Some of the comments expand further on why this happened (no surprise, the insurance company being a POS to their paying customer):
Geico let the lawsuit go on through judgment without defending its insured as required by the contract for which the insured paid premiums. Poor guy had a multi-million dollar judgment entered against him. Another judge later found that Geico should have defended its insured. Geico said, okay, let's start over then and retry the original case. Court said no, you should have defended your insured from the get-go.
That's why it is Geico's fault. If you're ever sued for something stupid and your insurance company that you've been paying for years to defend you from such lawsuits tells you to pound sand due to some technicality, you would get it.
If we had actually passed tort reform in the 90s we might have been able to save America.
And before anyone whines at me about Coffee Lady, I don't give a rat's ass. Anyone who holds a cup of coffee between their legs while driving is a bona fide retard. Misuse of a product should waive any responsibility from the manufacturer, period. It's thanks to that crusty cunt that vacuum cleaners have warnings like "do not use on genitals".
Didn't that coffee melt her skin tho? Like it was so ridiculously overheated nobody would even be able to drink it?
That's just the thing, it wasn't overheated. It was fresh. You have to boil coffee to make it. A boiling liquid will burn you.
That's why you don't hold it next to your junk.
It was definitely overheated you retard.
You don't even have the case facts right
I'm pretty sure they served it at like 250 degrees Fahrenheit
It's a few degrees short of boiling which doesn't really change the point but if you use boiling water the coffee will be bitter.