For example- No one told me that coffee was hot!
Just to put things like this into context:
One of my professors worked for the law firm involved in this case, and was on the team for the old lady that filed the lawsuit. The media tried (and succeeded) to make this seem like a frivolous lawsuit due to McDonald's being such a huge advertising whale.
What actually happened goes back to McD's being cheap and trying to maximize profitability. How? Coffee, in this case. The corporate teams involved in increasing profits discovered that by increasing the temperature of the water used to make the coffee, they could actually get more cups out of each pot. These very teams (paperwork was used as evidence in court to prove) knew beforehand that the cups used for the coffee were rated only to a certain temperature level, and that this "more coffee" move surpassed that safety level, In fact, employees were getting burned on the job while handling the pots, and McD's therefore bought gloves for the stores to be used while handling them. The same corporate thinktank also realized beforehand that lawsuits were a possibility, yet they decided that profits would outweigh said possibility.
So, one day, this poor old lady buys her coffee while going through the drive-through, and guess what happened? The cup fell apart, the coffee spilled into her lap/seat, and she then became the proud owner of 2nd and 3rd degree burns on parts of the body most delicate.
I think I would have sued, too.
