I started diving off of starting blocks when I was eight years old. I am now 51, and train at the Y, almost always alone, as there is no Masters program in the county where I live, or in any of the immediately adjacent counties. (There are several age group programs.) I want to work on my starts, but none of the Y's where I swim will let me use the blocks - saying that a national Y policy prohibits anyone from using the blocks unless a team/club coach is on the deck.
I have never heard of anyone suing a YMCA because of an accident on a starting block.
Yes, perhaps a coach would be valuable to me in this regard, but I'm not looking for a coach - I need and want a cooperative facility. The age groups' program schedules are not conducive to my schedule, and besides, the age group coaches already have enough on their hands during those times with lanes full of kids working their programs. I also am not excited about having to dodge those kids to do the work I need to do.
Anyone find a way to conquer this litigation-fear-induced insanity yet? Thank you.
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By its own corporate standards, McDonald’s sells coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit. A scientist testifying for McDonald’s argued that any coffee hotter than 130 degrees could produce third degree burns. However, a doctor testifying on behalf of Ms. Liebeck noted that it takes less than three seconds to produce a third degree burn at 190 degrees.
During trial, McDonald’s admitted that it had known about the risk of serious burns from its coffee for more than 10 years. From 1982 to 1992, McDonald’s received more than 700 reports of burns from scalding coffee; some of the injured were children and infants. Many customers received severe burns to the genital area, perineum, inner thighs and buttocks.In addition, many of these claims were settled, amounting to more than $500,000.
Tom and others. It is not about HOT coffee. This case was about coffee that is deliberately made to be SCALDING HOT. Spilling it onto your skin can cause 3RD DEGREE BURNS.
McDonalds makes it 60 degrees hotter than it should be, that it is the problem and the issue here.
Spill some Starbucks coffe on yourself and you are irritated, spill McDonalds coffee on yourself and you end up in hospital. Even after the $2.9 million fine they still serve it at this super high temperature, so the punitive damages were not high enough, perhaps $2,9 billion would make them see sense.
By its own corporate standards, McDonald’s sells coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit. A scientist testifying for McDonald’s argued that any coffee hotter than 130 degrees could produce third degree burns. However, a doctor testifying on behalf of Ms. Liebeck noted that it takes less than three seconds to produce a third degree burn at 190 degrees.
During trial, McDonald’s admitted that it had known about the risk of serious burns from its coffee for more than 10 years. From 1982 to 1992, McDonald’s received more than 700 reports of burns from scalding coffee; some of the injured were children and infants. Many customers received severe burns to the genital area, perineum, inner thighs and buttocks.In addition, many of these claims were settled, amounting to more than $500,000.
Tom and others. It is not about HOT coffee. This case was about coffee that is deliberately made to be SCALDING HOT. Spilling it onto your skin can cause 3RD DEGREE BURNS.
McDonalds makes it 60 degrees hotter than it should be, that it is the problem and the issue here.
Spill some Starbucks coffe on yourself and you are irritated, spill McDonalds coffee on yourself and you end up in hospital. Even after the $2.9 million fine they still serve it at this super high temperature, so the punitive damages were not high enough, perhaps $2,9 billion would make them see sense.
