By Miyeilis Flores
Jul 24, 2023, 11:14 AM EDT
A family filed a $15 million damages lawsuit against McDonald’s for injuring their daughter with a McNugget four years after the incident, a Florida jury agreed to award $800,000 in damages.
This is the case of a family that, in 2019, sued the fast food chain for the burns caused by a McNugget to their 4-year-old daughter’s leg.
After two hours of deliberation the jury awarded $400,000 for damages caused in the last 4 years, plus another $400,000 as a way to compensate in the future, for a total of $800,000.
The money will have to be paid by McDonald’s USA and the franchisee Upchurch Foods. Meanwhile, last May another jury had already decided both were responsible for the injury, the local channel NBC6 collects.
According to Olivia Caraballo’s family lawyers, she was 4 years old when she burned herself in 2019, outside a McDonald’s in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale.
According to the NBC6 channel, both McDonald’s and Upchurch made the necessary warnings in the food, causing the girl’s injury.
How did Olivia get burned?
One of the questions that can come to mind is how did a burn of such magnitude occur? How can a nugget cause an injury? Faced with these questions, it is worth taking into account the arguments of the girl’s parents.
Olivia’s parents, Philana Holmes and Humberto Caraballo Estevez, indicated that the chicken piece was “unreasonably and dangerously hot”, so their daughter suffered second-degree burns.