Burn Litigation

Pontikes & Associates has experience and specific expertise in litigating hot beverage litigation injury lawsuits. The United States currently has the highest burn injury rate of any industrialized nation. Since the McDonald’s case in 1994, there has been an explosion of lawsuits for burn injuries resulting from hot beverage spills. Defense of hot beverage spill lawsuits requires medical expert testimony regarding the burn injury and food service expertise and testimony regarding the industry standard for the brewing of hot beverages and the basis for those standards. Pontikes & Associates is a member of the Specialty Coffee Institute and our attorneys work closely with those experts and have substantial experience defending some of the largest food service corporations in the country against hot beverage burn lawsuits that ensued from the McDonald’s suit.

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