As for the McDonald's coffee incident, it bears noting that the reason she won was because the coffee was heated to a far higher degree than it should have been. According to Wikipedia (this matches what I remember and the woman did this only 4 hours from where I live) "Liebeck was taken to the hospital, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns on six percent of her skin and lesser burns over sixteen percent.[11] She remained in the hospital for eight days while she underwent skin grafting. Two years of treatment followed." Link to the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
