You are right Paul. Under the completed operations part of the liability policy they had no coverage on the burn but had MedPay. $5,000 was the limit.
McDonald Corp had decided many years prior to superheat the coffee because of market research. They had great success as the coffee was still hot when the customer got to the office.
Prior to her burn, they had settled over 100 other related burn cases for a few thousand each. They made a business decision to keep making money at the expense of the public good. Would you call their corporate lawyers great folks? Would you call the Nationwide Insurance Company lawyers great folks? Were they not lined up on the wrong side?
Then there is the lawyer on the back of my phone book. If you can breath you are a client. Sign up, he sends you to chiropractic care, then an MRI then sues for 50K. Only one problem, his client was never hurt. Then there are the folks who had no idea smoking was bad for them or fatty foods would make you fat. The people are the ones that sued but the lawyers were not required by law to take the cases.
Generally speaking the difference between a trial lawyer and a catfish is one is a bottom dwelling scum sucker and the other is a fish.
The above line is my lawyer joke.
