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.
The coffee case and how they destroyed that woman’s reputation was absolutely awful. Even now people think it was a “frivolous lawsuit”. That coffee was so hot it fused the lady’s labia together. There is nothing frivolous about that, it’s horrific to contemplate - especially when McDonald’s were warned about the problem, as you said.
It was hot coffee. It was boiling hot coffee. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand you shouldn’t play around with it and spill it on you. They made it hot so you could get it at the drive through and still have hot coffee when you got home to eat.
The coffee case and how they destroyed that woman’s reputation was absolutely awful. Even now people think it was a “frivolous lawsuit”. That coffee was so hot it fused the lady’s labia together. There is nothing frivolous about that, it’s horrific to contemplate - especially when McDonald’s were warned about the problem, as you said.
It was hot coffee. It was boiling hot coffee. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand you shouldn’t play around with it and spill it on you. They made it hot so you could get it at the drive through and still have hot coffee when you got home to eat.