50 million dollars for a coffee spanned on his lap. All because of a poorly closed plastic lid. Multinational wants to appeal.
Michael Garcia is a relay in Los Angeles, USA, and collected on February 8, 2020 a request made by customers at Starbuck, in the “Drive Thru” area, where you get into the car.
Inside, in the service booth, was an employee, responsible for closing the various cups that contained coffee and deliver them to the customer.
The problem, according to the, is that One of the cups was poorly closedwith the poorly placed plastic lid. The contents of the glass eventually turned on the stairs, which had third degree burns – the coffee was scalding.
There is one registered by the security cameras that shows the deliveries to be burned by the drink. Allegedly, got the burnt genitals and with irreversible damage.
5 years later, in a deliberation of only 30 minutes, a lawsuit accuses Starbucks of having Violated your duty of care when not fixing the lid. Now, the multinational with cafes around the world will have to pay 50 million dollars (About 46 million euros), by the succeeded.
CNN cites a recording of the verdict, where it is stated that the consequences of the burn in Garcia were PHYSICAL PAIN, MENTAL ANGERY, LOSS OF LIFEhumiliation, inconvenience, disgust, disability, physical disability, anxiety and emotional anguish.
Fox recalls an episode of a 1994, in which a woman sued McDonald’s after suffering third -degree burns when hot coffee poured into her lap.
The company says it will now resort to the verdict, and one of the arguments is that the employee no longer had drinks in her hand when the rehabt was burned.
“We sympathize with Mr. Garcia, but we disagree with the jury’s decision that we were to blame for this incident and consider that the assigned compensation are excessive“, He reported a company spokesman.“ We always commit ourselves to the highest safety standards in our stores, including the handling of hot drinks. ”
