Too late to prevent the massive derail that’s happened in these comments, but this is not about the details of coffee standards and hold temperatures or the percentage of previous injuries deemed serious. It’s about the media’s collusion with McD’s in framing the public narrative: “Spilled coffee on herself” sounds trivial, certainly more so than “melted her vulva with third-degree burns.” $2,600,000 sounds like a lot more money than $500,000. Yet the former are the takeaways retained even today by average people, and what informs their opinions about tort reform.
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