IIRC the narrative and the headline was “duh ! Hot coffee is hot! Idiot! “. ……But it turned out something like, McD coffee was like 99 degrees versus 70 degrees for your average cup and it was decided that makes a difference.

You’d have to check that, but that’s what I remember .

IMHO you still handle a hot drink like it could scald you , that’s your responsibility and your taught that from like 5 years old . However, you wouldn’t expect to be handed pretty much boiling water in a plastic cup .

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well it was super super hot, like you said. It was handed off to some grandma, the lid popped off, and the super hot coffee spilled all over this very old woman's inner thighs. There were pictures.

Old people have notoriously thin skin. Literally. So this hot-ass coffee burns this old woman's thin skin, and I think the resulting burns needed to be fixed via hospital visits & maybe surgery. So yeah it wasn't a frivolous lawsuit.