Re: Warnings concerning products {:-)

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

More coffee:

google.com   search   <"hot coffee" litigation>

apparently responsible corporate defense:

http://www.retailmerchandising.net/coffee/archives/0799/799ed.asp

Note: is funding research on the paradox.  (I think it's due to 1, higher heat cap. of wet mouth. & 2, thinner and higher conductivity of mucous membrane to circulatory heat sink.   As a boy sprout, I
did heat water in a paper bag!)

the attack attorney side:

http://vw4.erols.com/bglass/Newsletters/Sept97/articles.htm

note: corrects bc's hyperbole -- a couple of inches to the right and I'd be correct -- was she wearing shorts?

and  the conservative (euphemism) side  (from S. Calif., naturllich):

http://www.udel.edu/soc/vhans/cj346litigation/tsld004.htm

How many are duped by this "nut", or are we do believe the PI firm above is lying?

bc

p.s.  Lucky P.O.J.  obviously blessed by a leisurely life -- we do "bear the consequences."  We just want compensation for joint negligence.  Remember; set guns are illegal.

brian whatcott wrote:

> At 21:54 6/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
> ....
> > In the roughly 45 years I've been drinking hot coffee, I've never spilled it
> > on me. Those who do spill it on them should bear the consequences of their
> > own carelessness.
> >
> > Paul O. Johnson
>
> Strange though it feels to be supporting the perverted state of American
> jurisprudence, run as it is by American lawyers, I was pursuaded by a person
> who mentioned that the McD's in question had received repeated complaints
> from customers about the unusually hot coffee they were offering, but
> persisted with the product.
>
>  Apparently the jury found that a prudent person would have responded to
> repeated minor injuries to its customers caused by its products, but this
> entity had not.
>
>  Some American companies, it seems, just have to be hit with the
> metaphorical punitive 2X4 over the corporate brain pan, lacking any
> inherent sense of what is right and what is wrong.
>
>  After all, it doesn't mention not scalding customers in the constitution,
> does it?   :-)
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
> Altus OK