Samurai_Jerk wrote:Even in the US it really depends on how bad the injuries were. It could be a small cut on the inside or her mouth or a shredded throat that requires a trip to the emergency room. I'm sure if it was the latter we'd have heard about it. The famous McDonald's hot coffee case that everybody likes to use as an example of excessive rewards in US civil suits wasn't as crazy as it seemed. The coffee caused third degree burns and there had been hundreds of complaints before that but nothing had been done about it.
Yeah, that one always comes up. And I think it incited a lot of opportunistic litigation at the time, but maybe that has settled down a bit.