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California jury on Friday Starbucks ordered the payment of $ 50 million as compensation to the delivery driver, which was severely burned by an incorrectly guaranteed cover on hot drinks.
Michael Garcia was picking drinks in Los Angeles when he suffered severe burns, distorting, and delusions of the nerve damage to his genitals when he was eventually spilled on his lap, according to the lawsuit that was submitted at the California Supreme Court in 2020.
Michael Parker, a lawyer for Garcia, said that his client was picking up three drinks and no hot drink was paid to the entire container. Parker said that when Parista gave Garcia for him, a drink fell from the container and on Garcia.
Garcia damage included physical pain, mental pain, loss of enjoyment of life, humiliation, inconvenience, sadness, deformation, physical weakness, anxiety, and emotional distress, according to the registration of the ruling from the courtroom presentation network.
Starbucks said it is planning to appeal Judgment.
“We are sympathetic to Mr. Garcia, but we disagree with the jury’s decision that we were wrong in this incident and we believe that the damages that are granted are excessive,” a company spokesman said in a statement. “We have always been committed to the highest safety standards in our stores, including dealing with hot drinks.”
The lawsuit reminds us of famous issues of 1994 against McDonald’s, where a hot coffee woman leaked in her lap and suffered from third -class burns. In this case, the prosecutor, Stella Lipick, originally obtained approximately $ 3 million.
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