Ga. woman gets $1.2 million for coffee scalding

The Augusta Chronicle ^ | January 27 2011 | None listed

[arderkrag]

BUFORD, Ga.— A Cobb County jury has awarded a Buford woman $1.2 million after she said she was scalded by 190-degree water that shot out of a cappuccino machine at a QuikTrip convenience store.

Lawyer Nelson Tyrone III says the woman, 52-year-old Cynthia Nance, was burned on Halloween night in 2007 at a QuikTrip convenience store.

Atlanta attorney Valerie Pinkett, who represented QuikTrip, said the case was settled on confidential terms after the jury's verdict. She said the machine involved has been replaced with a newer model at all QuikTrip stores.

Tyrone said Nance was burned on her hand and arm as she held her cup near the machine. He said she could require an electronic implant to correct nerve damage caused by the burning.

[arderkrag]

GIVE ME A BREAK. If I had a nickel for the numbers of times I've been burned by coffee at restaurants and gas stations, well, I'd have heaps of nickels. An electronic implant for 190 degree coffee? Suck it up, lady.

[swarthyguy]

Another shining example of how the lawyering profession is making life better all around.

Ah, well, there used to be talk of tort reform.

Actually, a common sense clause would be fine.

But hard for lawyers to get their minds around.

[TankerKC]

A Cobb County jury has awarded a Buford woman $1.2 million after she said she was scalded by 190-degree water that shot out of a cappuccino machine at a QuikTrip convenience store.

Headline fail!

[txlurker]

After the blood sucking lawyer gets his, she will end up with a lot less. Even though she shouldn’t get anything.

[JimSEA]

Yet another dumb American legal system joke for my Thai friends. They love them.

[IYAS9YAS]

A former AF acquaitance of mine came away with only a nickname after spilling his hot Burger King coffee in his lap on his drive into work one morning. Crotch earned his nickname at roughly the same time McDonald's was being sued by Liebeck for her stupidity.

Granted, this woman appears to have been burned by a defective machine, but $1.2M is BS.

[IYAS9YAS]

acquaitance = acquaintance

[speciallybland]

What a joke. Both the lawyers and the system.

[albie]

A “Loser Pays All” system would eliminate these issues.

[Leo Farnsworth]

I retrieved my All-Clad saute pan from my Blue Star range on Saturday night without a hot pad.

The PAN burned MY hand because the Range was TOO HOT!

And the Heineken I was drinking at the time deadened my reflexes burning me further!

Where is Jackie Chiles when we need him?

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“she shouldn’t get anything”

Really? You think she shouldn’t get anything at all?

Man if I had permanent damage of ANY sort from some dumbass contraption, I would want somebody’s ass on a platter. But since that would not be available, I would damn well want some cash.

[trisham]

“It’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous”!

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Would it? So she goes bankrupt. No biggie to her I think.

It might be a slight disincentive, but not a panacea

[Leo Farnsworth]

Ha!

[antiRepublicrat]

It depends, if she walked up to the machine, pressed the button as she was supposed to, and was rewarded with serious burns requiring medical treatment and causing permanent bodily damage, then somebody’s gotta pay up. The amount seems a bit high though, unless much of it is medical treatment or the injury keeps her from working in her profession.

[albie]

If she doesn’t have attorney’s fees the attorney wouldn’t take it. He would only take it if he thought/was sure he could win.

[Pollster1]

Another parasitic lawyer gets even richer.

Another clumsy twit injures herself and gets rewarded for it.

Every convenience store coffee drinker in the country gets to pay more every day to cover the liability for caffeinated and decaf HazMat.

The libs would call the verdict a win-win-win for their team.

[vivalaoink]

Pay me $150K right now, and I will let anyone here spill a few ounces of coffee on my hand. No joke.

[Secret Agent Man]

Not to mention salacious!

[trisham]

LOL! He was such a great character.