How McDonald’s got burned by a cup of coffee.

The now-famous lawsuit involving a cup of McDonald’s hot coffee and a burned customer requires peeling back the layers to understand how the jury arrived at its controversial verdict. The goal is not to agree with the verdict, but to understand what motivated the lawsuit and the jury’s response to it.

Much of what we see in the news is heavily filtered by special interest groups and by constraints of space and time. For that reason, news accounts provide a rich resource for developing the critical thinking skills to analyze a situation and to ask the right questions. In both the PMBA and EMBA programs, a former plaintiff’s attorney brings to the classroom a real-world look at tort reform and lawsuits.

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