Reply #11: Not Quite Junk

[theblasmo]

The third degree burns the woman suffered over 20% of her body as a result of being handed a scalding hot cup of coffee with a bad lid have left her unable to function sexually or go the bathroom without intense pain, along with extensive skin grafts. She originally only asked for McD's to pay the hospital bills, which she should have gotten, from a legal standpoint. They refused. However, juries are usually very sympathetic to the individual in these cases, and they awarded her an enourmous amount of money, several million, to be not very exact. As is usual with these amounts, which are supposed to hurt the giant mega-conglomerate, the appeals court dropped the damages to just over the amount for the hospital bills, which, again, they owed her. Rarely do corporations pay the huge settlements juries award them. The judge in the Appeals Court almost always knocks the amount down to a pittance. Sure, there's junk out there, but this was not one of them. Hearing Tucker Carlson talk about the swimming pool lawsuit as though it was just another ambulance chaser case made me ill.