Litigation
I've handled thousands of lawsuits in like 30 for your practice in Albuquerque and one of my favorite cases of food appliance was Starlily back a 79-year-old woman who adjustability of Tucson to be near her family and she and her grandson purchased a couple coffee at McDonald's here in Albuquerque one morning and they pulled over in the parking lot so that she could and stopped so that she could take the lid off of the coffee and put some creamer in it unfortunately it's spelled in her lap she was in a jogging suit and it just absorb that coffee almost immediately and she couldn't get away from that it was almost like an immersion burns and long story short in that three or four second sheet she suffered third-degree burns to her crotch and groin area required to skin grafts and eight days in the hospital and she's never been in court forIs just hard-working lady to come here to retire a character she was a character and she asked McDonnells to please pay her medical expenses which were less than $20,000 in which she think they refuse to that point she hired an attorney in San Antonio name reed Morgan and Kenai associated in the case and then we litigate the case here in Albuquerque in the summer of 1994 the spill having been and 92 and the jury unanimously found in her favor but the coffee was scalding that it was unreasonably hot and that it should have been closer to 130 250° was the message they sent so still Boedies kind of injuries the jury deliberating for a couple of hours and as we were told that afterwards they got hung up on punitive how much really got Just how much really going to award punitive damages and ultimately the verdict was 2.7 million for punitive damages which constituted roughly 2 days of hot coffee sales as a as a punishment for being this reckless with this product I leaned over to Mrs. Leebeck was standing next to me and she Danai submissively back I want you to marry me or stop me and she immediately fired back okay son and that's