My deepest condolences for a loss suffered by a righteous plaintiff, V-Nurse.
Your Dad has suffered life-changing and most likely, life-shortening injuries.
The "Tort Reform" crowd has poisoned the public and, with it, the "jury pool" by falsely reporting and publicizing large jury awards as though they were excessive, unneeded and have even described them as a "blue-collar lottery".
Every person who participates in this speculation and stereotyping and spreads it without hearing ALL the facts should have to suffer some of the injuries they so callously dismiss.
In most of these cases, all you hear about are the distorted stories spread by giant corporations. These wealthy defendants hire others who do their bidding by misleading others and doing their best to distract from the truthful stories.
Genuine damages and injuries suffered at the hands of these corporate bullies is simply a financial or "bottom line" decision that the bad behavior is more profitable than fixing the problem or changing their behavior.
Those moneyed bullies will continue to tell an untruthful narrative about persons who get their day in court and a lot of their lies will remain in the backs of the minds of jurors and media pundits who will poison others.
I suggest getting a copy of
"Hot Coffee" and watching what that poor woman went through because McDonalds wanted to keep their coffee far too hot for far too long.
There are many reasons McDonalds did what they did. Among them are to have the coffee stay hot on the customer's commute and be at the best temperature to drink once they got to work or after to stay hot at the store after customers stirred in temperature-lowering additives like cream and sweetener.
All of those actions were conscious choices that the overall bottom line was more important than the safety of their customers.
The now-deceased victim suffered
third degree burns that required skin grafts from her inner thighs - a horrible fate even for any person, let alone one who was elderly.
And it wasn't McDonalds first mishap or notice that they were doing something dangerous.
V-Nurse, may the Karma your Dad deserves soon smite the dealer and those responsible for both the injury AND the horribly unjust decision!
