Scalding hot coffee that wound up in someone’s lap cost McDonald’s $480,000, but a somewhat similar mishap is not worth a dime in the New York Court of Claims, or so says Judge James J. Lack.
Judge Lack recently dismissed a case in which a woman visiting her sister at a state hospital was burned when a wheel mysteriously fell off a rolling cart and the hot coffee she had placed there spilled in her lap.
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