![]() Written, Rated, and Reviewed by Brendan H. Stella Liebeck really was a victim, and in more ways than one. You can’t believe everything that the media says. Liebeck was taken to the hospital after the incident, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns on 6 of her skin and lesser burns over. She might have won the trial, but she lost her dignity and her reputation. Liebeck won the case at trial in 1994, and the jury agreed with him. The goal was to persuade the customer that the coffee was too hot. She filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s for 125,000 in mental and physical pain. Stella Liebeck became a joke, a laughing stock, a punchline. Stella Liebeck, 79, suffered from third-degree burns to 20 of her body. They awarded her with 2.7 million dollars, which the judge reduced to $640,000, and Liebeck and McDonald’s eventually settled out of court for under $600,000.īut the media latched on to the $2.7 million, and so the urban legend goes that a dumb lady spilled hot coffee on herself while driving, sued, and became a millionaire. She was in real pain, and the jury was aware of it. She had to get skin grafts, lost over twenty pounds, and spent over two weeks in the hospital. She got third-degree burns over 6% of her body and first to second-degree burns over 16% of her body. Her sweat pants acted like a sponge and held the coffee against her groin, buttocks, and thighs. Stella Liebeck was a 79-year-old lady wearing sweat pants sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car when she removed the lid to add cream and sugar and accidentally spilled the cup on her lap. They had over 700 separate reports of severe burns caused by their overly hot coffee and they simply ignored them or paid off the victims until Stella Liebeck came along. However, the cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her. After the car stopped, she tried to hold the cup securely between her knees while removing the lid. Their coffee was sold at 180–190 ☏, which is enough to cause a third-degree burn in as little as two seconds. Stella became (in)famous in the early 1990s when she sued McDonald's after spilling coffee on her lap while sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson's parked car. Stella Liebeck, 79 years old, was sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car having purchased a cup of McDonald’s coffee. The fact is that McDonald’s knew that they had a dangerous product. ![]() They were eager to portray her as the villain and McDonald’s as the victim. The media blasted her, mocked her, and twisted the facts to depict her as greedy, sue-happy, and eager to manipulate the system. Stella Liebeck suffered third-degree burns on her buttocks, groin and legs after she removed the top from a cup of McDonalds coffee that she had placed between her legs while riding in a car being driven by her grandson, according to testimony. She became the poster child for frivolous lawsuits, a reputation that she did not deserve. She’s the lady that burned herself with hot coffee and successfully sued McDonald’s. In 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79 year old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, sued McDonalds after she sustained third-degree burns on her thighs, buttocks. You might not know Stella Liebeck’s name, but you know who she is.
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