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The Winner Is – and litigious they are!

September 20th, 2009 Ralph Eastman 5 comments

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results"...WCPrint Print

 

It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.  You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

            Here are the Stella’s finalists for the past year:

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