Chicago Products Liability Lawsuit Seeks More than $600,000 from McDonald’s Over Glass Found in McChicken Sandwich
Vjollca Lecaj is suing McDonald’s for Chicago personal injury. She claims that she got hurt on August 5, 2010 after biting into a McChicken sandwich and chewing on a large shard of class that was in it. She is seeking over $600,000 from the McDonald’s in Oak Lawn, McDonald’s USA, LLC, McDonald’s Corporation, and JDD Investment Company.
In her Chicago products liability complaint, Lecaj says that the restaurant failed to properly inspect the sandwich, as well as the processing and cooking equipment. She says she suffered permanent and severe oral injuries, in addition to experiencing great anguish and pain.
Restaurants can be held liable for personal injury or products liability if a food item that they serve causes injury or death. From contaminated foods to too hot liquids to foreign items in sandwiches and soups, over the years people have claimed damages for injuries, illness, trauma, and death.
There was, of course, the products liability lawsuit against McDonald’s in the 90’s filed by a woman who says that she suffered burns from the hot coffee she bought at the fast food chain burned her. A jury awarded her $2.86 million, although that amount was later reduced. Recently, the parents of a four-year-old boy have filed an injuries to a minor lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts over severe burns that they say he sustained from eating very hot nacho cheese. They say that Isaiah Harris experienced pain and suffering and sustained permanent scarring because Disney did not attempt to regulate the temperature of the cheese. His parents are claiming emotional distress and they are asking for compensation for legal and medical bills and punitive damages.
Recently, Rep. Dennis Kucinich settled his food injury lawsuit with Restaurant Associate over an injury he sustained when he bit into a sandwich from the congressional cafeteria. Kucinich says that he split his tooth in half because there was an olive with a pit in his meal. His tooth became infected. He claims that he had to undergo oral surgery and several teeth were replaced.
Last year, in Illinois, plaintiffs filed DuPage County personal injury lawsuits against Subway after its Lombard restaurant served food that exposed people to the Shigella sonnei bacteria. More than 20 Shigella poisoning cases ensued. At least seven people were hospitalized.
Lawsuit: Glass Found In McDonald’s Sandwich, CBS Local, February 10, 2011
Parents sue Disney, say son suffered 'severe burns' from nacho cheese, Orlando Sentinel, February 11, 2011
Ohio: Kucinich Settles Suit Over Olive Pit, The New York Times, January 29, 2011
Related Web Resources:
Products Liability, Justia
More Blog Posts:
Chicago Personal Injury Lawsuits Filed Against McDonald’s and Chipotle Over Food Injuries, Chicago Injury Attorney Blog, September 2, 2010
DuPage County Injury Lawsuits Accuses Lombard Subway Restaurant for Serving Bacteria-Tainted Food, Chicago Injury Attorney Blog, March 29, 2010
