Woman wins $100,000 from Starbucks in hot coffee lawsuit
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}She accused Starbucks of "failing to adequately" fasten the lid. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
The Venti Pike Place coffee cost her about $2.50. It ended up costing Starbucks about 40,000 times that.
In the latest hot-coffee lawsuit, a Florida woman was awarded $100,492 Thursday after a 2014 incident at a Starbucks drive-thru in Jacksonville left her physically scarred, reports the New York Post.
According to defense lawyers, Joanne Mogavero, a 43-year-old mother of three, received a cup of coffee from a barista and was attempting to hand it to a passenger when the lid popped off and the 190-degree drink spilled in her lap, leaving her with permanent scarring from first and second-degree burns.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mogavero accused Starbucks of "failing to adequately" fasten the lid, while her lawyers argued Starbucks should warn customers that lids may pop off, reports the Wall Street Journal.
After a Starbucks rep testified that the company receives 80 complaints about lids per month, a Duval County jury found Starbucks 80 percent at fault for the spill and awarded Mogavero $15,492 for medical bills, plus $85,000 for pain and suffering.
"My client didn't want sympathy from the jury—she wanted justice—and the jury gave it to her," her lawyer says. "It was good to see a just result." (This woman was paid $522,000 after tripping and spilling her coffee.)
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This article originally appeared on Newser: The Coffee Cost Her $2.50. It Cost Starbucks $100K