Jeff Morris wrote:
Why do you keep claiming she was putting on makeup? The facts were presented:
she was trying to take the cover off to add milk and sugar.

You keep misrepresenting the facts, long after you were corrected. Why is that
Jim? Does truth have little meaning for you?


Actually, although I had heard reports that she was putting on makeup, I
was dead wrong. - Apparently she wasn't putting on makeup. Instead, she
was trying to force the top off the cup, and having difficulty doing so.
What she should have done, of course, was wait until she could hold the
cup securely somewhere other han over her lap, and THEN try to get the
top off. In other words, if she was having trouble getting the top off a
cup of coffee held over her lap in a car, she should have realized that
she shouldn't continue forcing the top off, in the car. t

But I wasn't wrong with respect to the underlying issue, which is that
entire country is suffering from the exorbitant law suit recoveries
obtained by such hot shot lawyers.

I got the basic fact right, Jeff. The BASIC FACTS are that she got a hot
shot lawyer who enraged the jury with inflammatory pictures of her burns
and got a punitive judgment against MacDonalds that was based on their
emotional reaction to the pictures, and not on any rational
consideration of whether MacDonalds, or the lady, should pay for their
was negligence. - This was confirmed when the award was substantially
reduced on appeal.

The FACTS are that judgments of this kind, and the defensive measures
resulting from the threat of them, are a major drag on our economy for
both small and large business, and in particular, a major reason our
medical costs are the highest in the world. The end result of lawsuits
like this is a continued tax on all of us due to the added costs to
business. Where they relate to medical issues, they are a major factor
in the continued rise in the costs of health care and medical insurance,
to levels beyond those that many people can afford. In other words,
Jeff, because of tort recoveries such as that one (ignoring who was at
fault, and what both parties SHOULD have done) punitive tort recoveries
are a major reason that millions of American citizens can't get or can't
afford meaningful health care. It's also a major factor in the
precarious status of Medicare, lack of care for the indigent, etc.,
Additionally, related costs to businesses add to unemployment and
underemployment in many sectors of our economy.

But I suppose that we got one positive result out of the MacDonalds
suit. - We can now get lukewarm coffee from MacDonalds that we can
safely hold in our laps while we sit in our car. - Does that give you
some nice warm fuzzies Jeff?

Jim


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Jonathan Ganz wrote:


My recollection is that she had to have multiple skin grafts.
Macboy is quite an attorney!