This was the largest slip and fall award in Hawaii’s history and is excessive by any standard. The woman was 59 and not employed. She volunteered at various charities. She alledges to have slipped on “something” getting up from her table. Doesn’t sound like McDonalds’ defense mounted an effective argument on actual/constructive notice of the condition, or make the plaintiff establish what it was she slipped on. Could have been something she herself dropped or spilled. Could have been the shoes she was wearing.
Establishments aren’t automatically liable for slips and falls. In this kind of place, you know there are always families with kids who drop food and drink all the time. Even with a reasonable clean up policy you can’t keep the floor 100% perfect all the time. $2.6M in specials? Wasn’t working? Even the surgeries and rehab aren’t that costly.
Seriously? $5.6 million? What was her way of life like PRIOR to fall? Yes, I feel badly that she is wheel chair bound for the rest of her life and she is in pain but that does not make the dollar amount of this settlement justified in any way. I hope there’s an appeal?
It’s about time. McDs has been producing hamburgers that are not skid resistant for far too long! I can’t tell you how many times I have stepped on errant burgers that have given way under my feet. I have tried to break my damn vertebra but I can’t seem to belly flop the right way. Brava to that klutz in paradise!
Maybe they will offer to pay her in Gum. According to multiple Trident Layer’s Gum commercial’s, Trident Layers gum is accepted as legal tender for dumb@sses.
There are probably extrenuating circumstances. All anyone remembers from another case is that a woman got a bunch of money after spilling coffee in her lap. No one ever mentions the serious burns, the skin graft surgeries that were required or the fact that McDonalds used to serve their coffee at 200+ degrees because this enabled them to buy cheaper coffee beans and save money.
I am not saying the judgement in this case is correct but I want all the facts first.
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This was the largest slip and fall award in Hawaii’s history and is excessive by any standard. The woman was 59 and not employed. She volunteered at various charities. She alledges to have slipped on “something” getting up from her table. Doesn’t sound like McDonalds’ defense mounted an effective argument on actual/constructive notice of the condition, or make the plaintiff establish what it was she slipped on. Could have been something she herself dropped or spilled. Could have been the shoes she was wearing.
Establishments aren’t automatically liable for slips and falls. In this kind of place, you know there are always families with kids who drop food and drink all the time. Even with a reasonable clean up policy you can’t keep the floor 100% perfect all the time. $2.6M in specials? Wasn’t working? Even the surgeries and rehab aren’t that costly.
Seriously? $5.6 million? What was her way of life like PRIOR to fall? Yes, I feel badly that she is wheel chair bound for the rest of her life and she is in pain but that does not make the dollar amount of this settlement justified in any way. I hope there’s an appeal?
I gotta tell ya, that’s one HELL of a souvenier to be taking back to Texas!
(Hope I spelled “souvenier” right!)
What is wrong with juries today? They just saw McDonalds and gave her a big payday.
Mickey D was lucky she wasn’t holding a hot cup of coffee
It’s about time. McDs has been producing hamburgers that are not skid resistant for far too long! I can’t tell you how many times I have stepped on errant burgers that have given way under my feet. I have tried to break my damn vertebra but I can’t seem to belly flop the right way. Brava to that klutz in paradise!
Maybe they will offer to pay her in Gum. According to multiple Trident Layer’s Gum commercial’s, Trident Layers gum is accepted as legal tender for dumb@sses.
Liz is right about the negligence standards in Texas but based on the decision, either those standards are different in Hawaii or the Judge was nuts.
There are probably extrenuating circumstances. All anyone remembers from another case is that a woman got a bunch of money after spilling coffee in her lap. No one ever mentions the serious burns, the skin graft surgeries that were required or the fact that McDonalds used to serve their coffee at 200+ degrees because this enabled them to buy cheaper coffee beans and save money.
I am not saying the judgement in this case is correct but I want all the facts first.