McD is one of the biggest television advertisers in the world, so of course TV would not present any facts.
The McMyth case: Please read the link below, the actual facts speak for themselves. She asked only for medical costs which were 10-20K, but they offered $500, so he sued.
There were already 700 reports of scalding burns(mostly child employees) settled for $500,000. Here is one ex:
“Now, plotting Mrs. Liebeck’s case, Mr. Morgan planned to introduce photographs of his previous client’s injuries and those of a California woman who suffered second- and third-degree burns after a McDonald’s employee spilled hot coffee into her vehicle in 1990, a case that was settled out of court for $230,000.
A court-appointed mediator recommended that McDonald’s settle for $225,000, but the company refused, went to trial — and was hit with $200,000 in compensatory damages (reduced to $160,000 as the jury attributed 20% of the fault to the woman for having the coffee in her lap), and $2.7 million in punitive damages Even that was later reduced to $480,000, but before the appeals could be decided, the woman and McDonald’s settled privately with undisclosed and confidential terms, likely $225,000 minus lawyer costs for 2 years of debilating injuries.
