Alright just got back to Los Angeles, time to get back in the saddle. Did you know that a personal injury lawsuit just may be the most well-known legal case in American history? Who hasn’t heard about the lady who spilled hot coffee on herself and sued McDonalds for a million? She pulled through the McDonalds drive-through and bought herself some coffee. She then pulled away, setting the coffee between her legs—and ended up spilling it on herself? Right? Well, not exactly. For one thing, Stella Liebeck was not driving. In fact, her grandson was behind the wheel, and they were stopped in the parking lot. Did you know that the coffee was superheated, and hot enough to give her excruciating third degree burns, require skin grafts, and debridement treatments—necessitating 8 days in the hospital? A documentary is being produced that features the famous McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit case. Susan Saladoff is producing the new documentary feature, Hot Coffee. It will lay out the facts in a case whose details most people know nothing about. And if you need a Los Angeles personal injury attorney
you can check out Bob Mansell’s office. Don’t worry, it does not have to be a coffee burn case, he handles, workplace, spinal cord, traumatic brain, car accident and related personal injury cases.
Here are a few more of the facts in the case taken from an entry on the website; ‘Lectric Law Library’s Stacks, entitled, The Actual Facts About The Mcdonalds Coffee Case:
A quality assurance manager for McDonalds testified that the company enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. The same assurance manager testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above. He told the court that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was unfit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
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