- In a South Florida court case, a jury awarded $800,000 in damages to Olivia Caraballo, a young girl who suffered severe burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg while her mother was at the drive-thru of a McDonald’s restaurant in 2019.
- The family’s attorneys sought $15 million in damages for the incident. After less than two hours of deliberation, the jurors delivered their verdict on Wednesday, as reported by the South Florida SunSentinel.
- The jury’s verdict form allocated $400,000 in damages for the past four years and an additional $400,000 for future compensation. The defendants held responsible for the injury were McDonald’s USA and its franchise operator, Upchurch Foods.
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Girl Burned By McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets Gets $800K
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2014, file photo, a McDonald's Big Mac sandwich is seen at a McDonald's restaurant in Robinson Township, Pa. McDonald's told the AP on May 17, 2017,
that a story circulating online that McDonald's hamburgers uses earthworms as filler for its burgers is untrue. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
