Corporations Are Working to Destroy One of the Few Tools We Have to Stop Their Abusive Behavior

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet
Posted on March 11, 2011, Printed on March 11, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150133/

Everyone has heard of the woman who spilled coffee on herself and won $3 million from McDonald’s. Perhaps you recall an editorial similar to the one that ran in the San Diego Union Tribune: “A winning lottery ticket…absurd… a stunning illustration of what’s wrong with America’s civil justice system.”

I saw the injuries. One look was all it took. An 82-year-old woman with such severe burns on the insides of her upper thighs, inches from her vagina, that they required skin grafts. You can see it too, in the documentary Hot Coffee, when it’s released. Hot Coffee is the most exciting movie ever made about tort reform.