[geoschmo]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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McDonalds WAS pretty reckless in their behaivior before the accident

how where they reckless?

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Qualify this by saying I have no personal knowledge of the case or the evidence. What I learned I got from reading a bunch of websites on the subject. But apparently McDonalds had a corporate policy of keeping their coffee some 40 degrees hotter then the industry norm. The temperature was hot enough to be a serious risk of third degree burns. Evidence at trial was that they knew of this risk and chose for business reasons to disregard it. Apparently there were several hundred incidents involving customer scaldings prior to the incident that garnered all the attention. And that none other then the Shriners Burn Institute was on public record as having asked McDonalds corp to modify their policy before the incident involved in the lawsuit.

Sounds like fairly negligent behaivior, at least on the surface.

Geoschmo