After seeing the documentary Hot Coffee, it makes me realize how messed up our political system is. Some Politicians will do whatever it takes to get that reelection and even go against what they believe to obtain there so called Power. Its to the point that they have the people of the United States thinking that Tort Reform is necessary, when in reality they are trying to take away your freedom form you. They are taking away your rights and us the people don’t even know it. These big companies have manipulated so many people that tort reform is a good thing, they have Big politicians always saying that it is necessary that people just started believing whatever came out of there mouths.
What Tort Reform really does is it makes so much more money for big companies and it puts a limit to your compensation within a lawsuit against any company. You can be killed in an accident, the car could’ve blown up because it was supposed to be recalled, but the company gets away with only paying 100K, while your family suffers through the pain. All this does is makes the rich richer.
In the case of McDonalds vs. Stella Liebeck, the coffee burns Stella after she accidently spills the coffee on her. After everything, all Stella Asks for is for McDonalds to pay for her medical expenses, a amount that doesn’t even come close to how much they make a day in coffee. They decide to give her not even half of the amount, so Stella sues them. While in Discovery they find that McDonalds kept their coffee at 180-190 degrees while knowing 3rd degree burns happen at 185 degrees, the same type of burns that Stella had suffered. Also during discovery, they found that there were another 700 accidents that had happened but were kept low key because McDonalds just paid them a good amount of money. So not only was there damage to Stella, but also to 700 other people, which means there were Punitive Damages. The Jury finally assesses the damages and awards Stell...