Coffee lady all over again. Deliberately misusing a product should completely idemnify the manufacturer as far as I'm concerned. We live in the age where the warning labels are ten pages of an eleven page instruction book for goddamn batteries, and we need to just let the terminally stupid die already.
McDonald's hot coffee? That suit was very low on the frivolity scale. The coffee burned through a thin layer of clothing and left third-degree burns around the lady's groin. She requested only that medical expenses be covered and the corporation was sniffing too far up it's own ass to settle.
Also, she was riding as a passenger in her son's Ford Probe.
Which had no cupholders. And the consequences of the spill were worse; she actually went into shock and stayed at the hospital for a little over a week to get skin grafts.
I don't like the wave of frivolous lawsuits that have come in the wake of that incident; don't get me wrong, but I actually think that the coffee case was handled the right way by the lady and the courts.
She only wanted enough money to cover her medical expenses. The judicial parties got her more money, and the temperature warnings are apparently more prominent on the coffee cups now.
Coffee lady all over again. Deliberately misusing a product should completely idemnify the manufacturer as far as I'm concerned. We live in the age where the warning labels are ten pages of an eleven page instruction book for goddamn batteries, and we need to just let the terminally stupid die already.
McDonald's hot coffee? That suit was very low on the frivolity scale. The coffee burned through a thin layer of clothing and left third-degree burns around the lady's groin. She requested only that medical expenses be covered and the corporation was sniffing too far up it's own ass to settle.
Also, she was riding as a passenger in her son's Ford Probe.
Which had no cupholders. And the consequences of the spill were worse; she actually went into shock and stayed at the hospital for a little over a week to get skin grafts.
I don't like the wave of frivolous lawsuits that have come in the wake of that incident; don't get me wrong, but I actually think that the coffee case was handled the right way by the lady and the courts.
She only wanted enough money to cover her medical expenses. The judicial parties got her more money, and the temperature warnings are apparently more prominent on the coffee cups now.