We all remember the classic case of Liebeck v. McDonald’s. Well it seems other hot drink vendors didn’t learn this important lesson.
A woman in Manhattan is suing Starbucks for $3 million for her hot drink. It’s tea this time, not coffee, but it did result in some pretty nasty third-degree burns.
Tara Darrow, a Starbucks spokeswoman, said,
our customers enjoy our beverages hot, and unless we are asked otherwise, we serve them that way.
No explanation was available for why not a single Starbucks employee helped the 77 year-old woman as she shrieked in agony.
To make her ordeal worse, she fell out of bed while at the hospital and fractured several bones. However, hospital negligence is one cup of hot water Starbucks will likely evade.
Updates
In the meantime, McDonald’s might be making more ground-breaking law, this time in the area of privacy. Aaron Brummley, a McDonald’s manager, found a cell phone in his restaurant and the nude pictures of the phone owner’s wife somehow found their way on to the Internet.
After the wife received harassing and threatening text messages and experiencing “emotional distress,” the couple decided to sue McDonald’s for $3 million.
