The MacDonalds case, as it were, in Germany/Kaffeeklage in München

11.11.2011 - Pressemitteilung 10/11 Germans have been reminded this week of the Stella Liebeck case, or their memories of it, in which MacDonalds eventually settled the case where a woman received third-degree burns from coffee spilt on her legs. The Landgericht (Regional Court) in Munich did not award damages to a German woman, the passenger in a car at a drive-through restaurant. In this case she seems to have been contributorily negligent to a greater degree than Stella Liebeck, and had second-degree burns. Possibly the lid was put on the cup too loosely. The plaintiff sued for damages of about…