I would think they would settle before going to court. You could convince the jury that you're affected for life and they may give much more than the insurance company wants to Easily. You can no longer jump!
Yeah, they'll settle for my terms eventually. I'll take 1m in cash and they can cover my medical expenses for life.
A cop of hot coffee cost McDonald's 2 million.
You went through worse
That's not actually true.
First, the coffee was exceptionally hot - literally scalding to where the lady needed surgery.
Second, on appeal, she got very little money - like 10k or something stupidly low and as I recall McDonald's simply never even paid that out.
People trot it out as real, but that's really far from the truth. You can look it up if you're bored.
People have been trotting it out for decades, even though it's not true.
And now you know...
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