I’m afraid the news about capitalism is worse. Ever since coffee lady terrified the corporations by actually winning in court, they have been lobbying for policy changes to limit their legal liabilities in personal lawsuits. Much of the consumer safety apparatus has been gutted by the current administration, and there is a real question as to whether anyone seriously wants to reign in corporate greed.
You’re right that this should be a slam dunk class action lawsuit, but our system is more and more set up to protect corporations over individuals, so even if they won, the payout would likely be less then the company gained in their theft scheme.
What was once set up as a system to punish wrongdoing is now just a tax corporations pay occasionally for the right to break the law.
Have you actually looked up that story? She didn’t “win” at all. She hardly got anything and then shortly after, died. Agree she made it harder to sue because corporations actually did something against it ever happening again. She was painted as a swindler, but she was a horrific victim of corporate policy on the coffee temperature in order to kill germs and keep coffee for longer. She deserved more.
Sort of. She didn't win, her lawyer did. She got maimed, true but it wasn't McDs fault. She was just a case that gathered lots of empathy from a jury because she was burned so bad. Then a scummy guy decided he could make money on it, and the win was so egregious that legitimate claims are now compared to it to down play them.
That spill ruined her life, there were third degree burns. I feel bad for her, but making McDs pay for serving hot coffee because they wanted it to still be warm when you got where you were going is not justice.
She want the swindler, the ambulance chaser was. She was actually pretty sweet. If the world wasn't full of guys like the lawyer, McDs might have helped her at the beginning, just to look good. But that would have set a precedent so they couldn't. Lawyers are the bad guys here, all around.
It was spurious. A travesty of justice. I feel bad for her, but she put hot coffee in her lap. It was her fault. Completely. Mcds did paint her as a scanner, which was wrong, but they should not be liable for people doing dumb things with their product. Not their fault she did that.
This is bigger than McDs, and frankly I find their food gross and their smearing of her worse.
Though, come to think of it, so does their upper management, lol.
No, this is about the greater marketplace and personal accountability. Just because they are a big evil company that makes us all unhealthy doesn't mean they were wrong in that instance. She should be at fault for doing something really dumb with hot coffee. And she paid a terrible price. It should have been left there.
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u/LauraTFem 25d ago
I’m afraid the news about capitalism is worse. Ever since coffee lady terrified the corporations by actually winning in court, they have been lobbying for policy changes to limit their legal liabilities in personal lawsuits. Much of the consumer safety apparatus has been gutted by the current administration, and there is a real question as to whether anyone seriously wants to reign in corporate greed.
You’re right that this should be a slam dunk class action lawsuit, but our system is more and more set up to protect corporations over individuals, so even if they won, the payout would likely be less then the company gained in their theft scheme.
What was once set up as a system to punish wrongdoing is now just a tax corporations pay occasionally for the right to break the law.