A California delivery driver received $ 50 million as compensation after the jury agreed that the Starbucks site was neglected in dealing with hot tea.
Michael Garcia sued the café chain after tea leaked in his bosom in a motor car and caused a permanent deformation of his pen. “The life of Garcia has changed forever” because of the accident.
Rouley said: “No amount of money can retract the permanent catastrophic damage that he suffered, but this jury’s ruling is a decisive step in Starbucks accountability for the blatant ignorance of customer safety and not accepting responsibility.”
Starbucks said she was planning to appeal, adding that she was “always committed to the highest safety standards in our stores.”
“We are sympathetic to Mr. Garcia, but we do not face the jury’s decision that we are wrong in this incident and we believe that the excessive damage is,” Starbucks said in a statement.
Garcia was working as a delivery driver after the post on February 8, 2020, when he arrived in Los Angeles Starbucks to capture three tea in my “medical ball” stomach, according to his lawyers. It was handed over a cardboard bearing with drinks when driving when a cup fell directly in his lap and the upper part of a drink appeared.
The video from Rowley shows Starbucks who prepare drinks, and the moment the tea is released to the Arcia bosom. Garcia’s lawyers argued at the court that the window employee failed to properly secure this drink in the carrier.
Garcia suffered from third -class burns to his penis, pottery and interior.
Rouley said that Garcia had leather appeals in his penis at the Grossman Bern, and that any friction in the region causes Garcia’s pain.
Remember the case of the court McDonald’s coffee suit is notorious. In 1992, 79 -year -old Stella Libybek suffered from third -class burns after McDonald’s coffee spilled in her bosom in New Mexico.
Lipick’s case is sometimes criticized as a trivial lawsuit, but the evidence in the trial showed that McDonald’s coffee was hotter than that Other restaurants. According to American Museum of LawAt least 700 people have been burned by McDonald’s, but the company It did not change the policy of maintaining its coffee between 180 and 190 degrees.
The 79 -year -old asked McDonald’s to pay her medical bills and filed a lawsuit only after the company rejected, according to what she said. Consumer Magazine and Commercial Law.
Initially, she got $ 2.7 million in punitive damage, but the judge reduced the jury. Lipick and McDonald’s settled an amount that has not been disclosed.
