A jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a little girl who was severely burned when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg.
"Our customers should continue to rely on McDonald's to follow policies and procedures for serving Chicken McNuggets safely," McDonald's said in a statement in May.
The case may stoke memories of the McDonald's coffee lawsuit of the 1990s, which became an urban legend of sorts about seemingly frivolous lawsuits, even though a jury and judge had found it anything but. A New Mexico jury awarded Stella Liebeck, 81, $2.7 million in punitive damages after she was scalded in 1992 by hot coffee from McDonald's that spilled onto her lap, burning her legs, groin and buttocks, as she tried to steady the cup with her legs while prying the lid off to add cream outside a drive-thru. She suffered third-degree burns and spent more than a week in the hospital.
She had initially asked McDonald's for $20,000 to cover hospital expenses, but the company went to trial. A judge later reduced the $2.7 million award to $480,000, which he said was appropriate for the"willful, wanton, reckless" and"callous" behavior by McDonald's.a teenager was badly burned after being served hot water at an"unreasonably dangerous temperature" at a McDonald's restaurant in Oregon.
A separate legal case had a woman filing suit against Dunkin' Donuts in New Jersey after falling in a parking lot and spilling hot coffee and burning herself. She
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