Product Liability Attorneys Ny

Product Liability Attorneys Ny

Product Liability Attorneys Ny

Susan Saladoff’s film documentary Hot Coffee tries to challenge commonly held views about the U.S. legal system and several of the related criticisms of it. She uses the famous McDonald’s coffee case to debunk some of the most prevalent assumptions about the litigation there and the motives often attributed to those who bring legal action.

While the movie features three other story lines it highlights the events surrounding Stella Liebeck, a then 79-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico woman who was severely burned in 1992 from a cup of McDonald’s coffee spilled over her lap. Both she and the American civil justice system received enormous ridicule after a jury in the state awarded her $2.86 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

Disputed notion of “frivolous lawsuits”

But Saladoff argues in her film that Liebeck’s case was not one of the “frivolous lawsuits” that critics for years contended. The woman’s burns were serious and painful and she was not seeking to obtain as much money as possible from McDonald’s, Saladoff told an audience during a screening at the National Press Club in Washington.


Posted by Admin on December 01, 2011 - 4:51 pm Posted in chattanooga attorney
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