The story behind the woman who sued McDonald's for 3 millions dollars after spilling McDonald's coffee, in 1997, isn't just someone crying over spilled coffee. She was 79-years-old and her name was Stella Liebeck.
She bought a coffee and she was on the passenger side, and the car was parked in the McDonald's parking lot. She had put the coffee between her legs and it had accidentally spilled and it gave her 3rd degree burns of where the coffee had touched. She had 16% of her body in burns and 6% was 3rd-degree
The coffee of the McDonald's at the time was dangerously high, between 180 and 190 degrees (give or take 82 - 88 celsius). If you don't know how high that is, Coffee at that temperature, if spilled would cause 3rd-degree burns in 3 - 7 seconds. In which it had in Liebeck's case.
Not only that, around the time there had already been more than 700 cases where this happened to other people. McDonald's also had admitted of knowing about the risk of customers being burned from the scalding hot coffee for 10 years, and within the 10 years, it was brought to their attention from customers being burnt.
She originally offered to have them a settlement of 20,000 dollars which would only cover medical expenses and her lost of income. It was only then when McDonald's would say they would only give 800 dollars, is when they went to suit.
After the fact, she was sadly only known by people spreading misunderstood and misconstrued facts and was referenced by the media - in late 90's and early 2000's- as a greedy scumbag and a villain while McDonald's was the victim, but it was quite the opposite. And yes McDonald's had 'caution hot' on their cups but it did not explain how hot it truly was.
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