McDonalds Case Study

Executive Summary

Everyone in the world is always suing one another or companies to either get rich quick or to prove a point. The real reason for most lawsuits is to get rich quick. Many companies will settle out of court if they are wrong or not to prevent bad publicity that may affect them financially with an active lawsuit that will make the news. The laws should have regulations on lawsuits. The people of the world want to be wealthy and get rich quick. Lawsuits can be dragged out for years and can affect both parties financially and mentally. The reasons many drag the lawsuits out over years is due to the hopefulness that the lawsuit is dropped or settled out of court. Many people will take the settlement unless they really have the time to wait for a trail and judge or jury to determine their fate.

Introduction

There are many individuals in the world who will always take a chance in life to see if they can sue an individual for what they may have feel their rights have been violated. In the case of Stella Liebeck and the lawsuits she had against McDonalds made national headline and I was aware of this lawsuits when we talked about this in discussion. Stella Liebeck believed she was violated in being burned due to the coffee she was served was too hot and it caused third degree burns to her a large amount of her body. Many refer to Stella Liebeck lawsuit to be a frivolous lawsuit and should have never gone to court.

The Roy Pearson decided to sue a dry cleaning company due to false advertisement against the dry cleaning company, which did not provide “satisfaction guaranteed” and “same day service” to give fast service and where the company had lost Roy Pearson pants while in their care (Goldwasser, 2007). This made national news as well as the Stella Liebeck case. This lawsuit has been referred to as frivolous as well. There are many people that will agree that this lawsuit should have never gone to court as well.

What are the facts?

The Mighty Quinn facts:

• Stella Liebeck received third degree burns which were over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas.

• she was hospitalized for eight days which she received skin grafting.

• McDonald’s coffee spilled in her lap in the drive thru.

• Stella Liebeck was from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• this occurred in 1992

• She was the passenger of her grandson car.

• The coffee was served in a Styrofoam cup and scalding hot.

• The car was at a stop when she spilled her coffee.

• The