81 year old scalds her crotch and gets $2.9 mil - Good ol Stella

Not only does she make history by spilling hot coffee (after she took the top off) in her lap after picking it up from a McDonalds and successfully suing and winning $2.9 million. She also has changed the industry standards by companies putting a warning that the cup that holds the morning libation has “Hot liquid that can burn or scald”. Now we all know that a cup of coffee is hot and we shouldn’t place it in our lap. Really?
She also has the distinction of having outlandish lawsuits named after her, hence the “Stella Awards”.

After reading the following, true, lawsuits, you will definitely be scratching your head.
Here are a few winners from 2010;

A female was awarded $80,000.00 after breaking her ankle tripping over a child who was running amok in a furniture store. The store owner must have been surprised with the decision since the child was her child.
A 19 year old male claimed a $74,000.00 decision plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with his vehicle, breaking it. The male failed to notice that there was a driver in the vehicle while he attempted to steal the hubcaps off the car.

A burglar was leaving a residence he had just burglarized, but was unable to exit the house due to the garage door malfunctioning. He couldn’t re-enter the house as the door to the house locked when it closed. He was forced to sit for eight days in the garage, surviving by eating a bag of dog food and drinking soda. He sued and won $500,000.00 for mental anguish.

An Arkansas man sued his neighbor and won $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bit on the gluteus maximus by the neighbor’s Beagle. Problem was he sued for more but the jury believed that the man antagonized the dog by jumping into the neighbor’s yard and had shot the Beagle repeatedly with a pellet gun.

A Philadelphia restaurant had to pay $113,500.00 to a gal due to her slipping on a soda that was spilled on the floor, breaking her tailbone. Sorry. The soda wasn’t spilled on the floor. It had been thrown by the gal who threw it at her boyfriend, 30 seconds earlier before she slipped.

The owner of a nightclub in Delaware was sued and had to pay $12,000.00, plus medical after a female broke out her two front teeth in his club. How’d she do that? She tried to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge by climbing through a bathroom window.

I think we have all heard this story. An Oklahoma woman was awarded $1,750,000.00 plus a new Winnebago motor home. Why? She was driving her mew 32 foot motorhome at 70 mph and set the cruise control. She left the driver’s seat to go into the back to fix herself a sandwich. You know what happened. Winnebago actually changed their owner’s manuals just in case this woman’s relatives decide to buy a motorhome.

Really? REALLY?