A supplier suffered serious burns in the genital area due to a loose lid of a tea and now receives $ 50 million damage from Starbucks.
A sloppy employee costs Starbucks several million dollars. On a video you can see how the employee presents three hot drinks in the drive-in. But a lid was not good on the cup. When handing over, the hot tea of 80 degrees fell on the man.
“Paralyzing nerve damage”
Michael Garcia suffered from “serious burns, distress and paralyzing nerve damage to his genitals when hot drinks were spilled on his lap,” the lawsuit, which was already submitted by 2020.
The Juryhof has now sentenced the coffee chain to a payment of $ 50 million.
“The life of Michael Garcia has changed forever. No amount of money can cause the last catastrophic damage he has suffered, “said Nick Rowley, the victim’s lawyer.
Too hot or too cold
Not for the first time a company has to pay a lot of money to customers because the drink was too hot: the most famous case also took place in the United States in 1994. Stella Liebeck sued McDonald’s after heavy burns with hot coffee. The applicant received $ 2.7 million. The amount was reduced to $ 480,000.
But coffee can also be too cold, as a case from 2016 proves. At that time, Starbucks was charged for $ five million in iCeless drinks due to too much ice cream in the United States.
Source: Krone
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