The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit | Adam Ruins Everything

our justice system is much less impartial than we like to think Adam, I'm serious, Kendra's freedom is at stake, please stop scaring her, no, I knew it, the system is going to screw me, they put people in Innocents in jail while old lady who spills hot

coffee

on herself gets a million dollars ah yes, the famous McDonald's hot

coffee

lawsuit

, that case was terrible, but not for the reason you think, anyway fact,

everything

you've heard about him is wrong, hey, tell me what you think happened in that case. There was a greedy lady and she was all I don't want money, my ethics are questionable, so she has a coffee and a McDonald's, but she says I'm too dumb to know the coffee is hot and she's going crazy and spills a bit. on the left ah, so she says hi, I'm suing McDonald's, she deserved money for being stupid and now she's a millionaire and probably owns the Clippers or whatever, wow, sorry, that's all wrong, the facts, the result and especially that voice, hey, strong. choosing is better than no choice this is what really happened stella liebeck was a 79 year old woman whose grandson took her to

mcdonald

's she was in a parked car holding hot coffee in her lap when it was spilled now stella openly admitted that the spill was hers mistake but the results were horrible she had third degree burns on her legs and genitals and went into shock she had to undergo painful skin graft operations and her surgeon said it was one of the worst cases he had ever seen Stella was permanently disfigured and He almost died from third degree burns.

How come no one serves coffee that hot? You're right, only a clown would do that. The reason Stella's injuries were so severe is that McDonald's was serving coffee at a temperature of up to one hundred and ninety degrees that almost boiled McDonald's themselves. She even admitted that at that temperature coffee was a danger, in fact, in the previous decade, more than 700 people notified McDonald's that they had been burned by coffee. The real irony is that Stella didn't even want to go to court, she just wanted McDonald's. to help her pay twenty thousand dollars in out-of-pocket medical expenses, but after making her wait for six months she was only offered eight hundred dollars.

Stella tried to get McDonald's to reach an agreement, she even agreed to mediation, but McDonald's didn't give in, they gave it to her. She had no choice but to go to court, so when the jury heard Stella's story they discovered that McDonald's had acted so irresponsibly that they had to be punished, they burned 700 people, this has to stop, let's find them in two days. The cafe sells its 2.7 million that should teach them a lesson, steal, steal and it worked in the end. Stella settled for less than six hundred thousand dollars, but that was enough for McDonald's to turn down the heat and stop burning people.

This was an incredibly rare case where a working class victim actually beat a huge team of corporate lawyers and made the world a better place. Wow, how could you not know this? Because those corporate lawyers are really good at their jobs. They spent years running a disinformation campaign to convince Americans that there was an epidemic of frivolous

lawsuit

s. and the media believed it it seems like he was holding a cup between his legs while driving now he says he broke his nose when he sneezed he got to the sizzle leaning down looking at the chickpeas you give me a coffee drinker on that jury you are going to retire from there a rich man Jesus getting smaller spilling a cup of coffee knocks a man down and because of this false narrative the witch hunt against frivolous lawsuits continues to this day hot coffee wow are they really angry except that anger isn't real these the protests have been organized and sponsored by large corporations. citizens against the abuse of lawsuits, they try to turn public opinion against the lawsuits, this includes companies like Pfizer and Texaco, big tobacco companies like Philip Morris, Philip Morris, yes, and by spreading this false story they made everyone believed that silly demands were proliferating and that nothing could be done.

Further from the

truth

, the best social science evidence shows that the number of personal injury claims in recent decades has declined and the median payout is just $55,000 oh, smell the money. I better get out of here, bye, thanks Michael, these mother Falcon companies dragged an old Lady through the mud so we couldn't sue them anymore, yeah this story is crazy. McDonald's had a policy that almost killed someone and it took Stella's lawsuit to change it. She should be considered a hero, but because of these companies we deal with. her as a punchline, okay, are you done talking about civil court cases?

Because Kendra's case is in Criminal Court. It's a completely different system, one I know quite a bit about. She has a great case and the jury will be very receptive. oh there are a lot of problems with jury trials if you do another act I swear I'll leave I'm sorry it's happening we'll be right back. Hey guys, Adam here, if you like it, be sure to check out new episodes of Adam Ruins Everything every Tuesday at 10:00 on truTV