Girl awarded $800,000 in damages for ‘dangerously sizzling’ McDonald’s burn harm

By India Today World Desk: An eight-year-old woman in Florida was awarded $800,000 in damages after she suffered extreme burn accidents when a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget fell on her leg.

According to a report with the BBC, the woman’s household had sought $15m in damages after the ‘dangerously sizzling’ McNugget burnt the minor, recognized as Olivia Caraballo.

The incident occurred in 2019, when Olivia was 4 years outdated.

The Chicken McNugget fell on her leg, leaving a scar, after she had opened her Happy Meal within the automobile at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Tamarac, close to Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

The Florida jury awarded compensation to Olivia, primarily based on the ache, struggling and psychological anguish she suffered.

The compensation included $400,000 for the previous 4 years in addition to $400,000 for the long run.

The choice got here after the household’s attorneys shared images of the burn, together with an audio of the minor’s screams the second McNugget fell on her leg.

In protection, McDonald’s had argued the household ought to obtain $156,000 as a result of, they claimed, her ache ended after the burn healed in three weeks.

The lawyer for the outlet additionally stated the woman was nonetheless going to McDonald’s, getting hen nuggets.

Meanwhile, terming the authorized choice ‘momentous’, the minor woman’s mom informed US media outdoors courtroom that she was “just happy”.

She additional stated she had no expectations and that this was truthful.

Commenting on her daughter’s burn harm and the scar, she stated that Olivia was keen to get it eliminated.