Re: OT: McDonald's coffee again

From: Paul Repacholi (prep_at_prep.synonet.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 03:36:36 +0800

williamwebb@openvms-rocks.com (William Webb) writes:

> Contingent liability is becoming a forgotten concept, in other words
> taking into consideration how much each party was at fault.

Contingent liability is alive and very well, even in the US.

In the McCoffee case, almost all of the award was for special punitive
damages. They had been warned about the danger, they wanted to save
less than 1c per cup, so the award gave the total for the US for that
year, x3. 

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