Counsel for Ciara Corboy said she suffered extensive burns and required treatment in hospital.
Image: Shutterstock/Gargantiopa Image: Shutterstock/Gargantiopa A 29-YEAR-old woman, whose thighs and genitals were scalded when coffee was spilled in her lap at a McDonald’s drive-thru takeaway in Clondalkin, Co Dublin, has been awarded €30,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.
Cosgrove, who appeared with James McSweeney Solicitors, said the defendant, Gerla Restaurants Limited, Lucan, Co Dublin, had denied negligence in a full defence and had pleaded contributory negligence on Corboy’s part. Corboy denied in cross-examination by Moira Flahive, counsel for Gerla Restaurants, that she had put the large coffee cup between her legs in her car which had caused the lid to pop off.
He felt training procedures should have been followed and had not been on this occasion which tipped the decision in Corboy’s favour. He said CCTV coverage of the incident showed the car moving following the spillage. He said that while the injuries had been highly stressful and painful there had been no evidence of any permanent consequences as a result of them and therefore no necessity for damages into the future.
One of the most famous coffee scalding cases in legal history involved McDonalds and a 79-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, woman who scalded herself while sitting in her grandson’s car in 1992.
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