On 12/6/2012 12:21 AM, Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Mike Marlow" wrote:

Or, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit.

Uh, I'd venture that 99.9% of the people who bring this up as a supposed
example of a frivolous lawsuit, actually have never heard the real
story.

Fact 1: The woman received THIRD DEGREE burns. The coffee was FAR hotter
than any reasonable restaurant ever serves it. This was a deliberate
ploy to reduce requests for refills, as the stuff couldn't even be
sipped for 10-15 minutes.

Fact 2: The woman asked McD's to pay her medical bills, which IIRC were
a couple of hundred dollars.

Fact 3: She brought suit only AFTER McD refused to pay the paltry
medical bills.

That does not change the fact that she was responsible for her own
burns. If she had a car wreck with the coffee between her legs would she
have included the expense for that in her suit?

to paraphrase SHE IS THE MASTER OF HER FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF HER SOUL.