Eli5: How does some lawsuit cases ends up in one party paying up millions of dollars? (For example, the hot coffee incident with McDonalds)

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Eli5: How does some lawsuit cases ends up in one party paying up millions of dollars? (For example, the hot coffee incident with McDonalds)

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Not to be combative here, but [*You’re Wrong About* the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/9179249-the-mcdonald-s-hot-coffee-case). It’s a great rundown about exactly how this happened, and how McDonald’s PR department made you think that they paid millions of dollars.

Incidentally, the $2.7M punitive damages that were immediately reduced by the judge were settled on as two days’ worth of coffee sales. So that’s how the jury got that number in this case.