Venue? Which county/counties could the plaintiff reasonably file this claim in and not get dismissed for improper venue

One of my favorite Score memories was the Heavy Fuel Crew talking about the 80-yr old woman who sued McDonald's when she spilled hot coffee on her crotch. Boers said something to the effect of, "she probably hadn't had heat like that down there since the Hoover administration."

Future medical expenses could easily be six figures into half a million dollars even, depending on how many skin grafts they have to do to restore the area to its pre-injury condition. Unfortunately the plaintiff's system favors lump-sum payouts and doesn't really accommodate a defendant picking up the tab for on-going medical treatment very well. So plaintiffs need to avoid the temptation to jump on the first six-figure offer from the defense.

Plenty of actual damages in the medical bucket, plus pain and suffering, eudaimonic and economic damages from lifestyle changes and missed work and pain and suffering. Unless the injury is not substantial enough to require grafts or the victim is going to live with permanent disfigurement (which would be a different calculation), any lawyer talking about settling for under $500K should be kicked to the curb. And that should be $750K or whatever to cover the lawyer's fee and still leave plaintiff with the funds to cover worst-case future medical.

The protocols that may or may not have been broken were not handling coffee properly, not checking on the person or filing an incident report, and coffee temp, so there may or may not be numerous policies that were not followed. The person said that personnel were disciplined, and an internal review was done, so it will be interesting to see what happens, there are certainly any number of people that may or may not be advising this person to engage the services of a PI Lawyer, but this person is still weighing options at this point.

Find the discussion interesting because my experiences as being deposed as a plaintiff's witness in malpractice stuff were basically having the plaintiff's lawyer try to get me to cite instances where people did not follow accepted protocols or procedures, so the fact that a company rep would admit that written protocols were not followed leads me to believe there is at least somewhat an avenue here despite the level of injury.

internal urological issues? Did she try to douche with the hot beverage?

Plaintiff's lawyer would hire a medical expert to map out of the potential future medical costs based on worst case scenarios. Given the insane cost of medical care in the united states and its likelihood to increase year after year, probably you can't estimate that too high. Defense would try to argue for actual medical, but they should know better and come up with a figure in between. I'd still push for max comp for the medical side. If they bitch, bring blown-up photos of the injury to the settlement talks and leave them out during the discussion.