That coffee cup incident involved the place that served it being warned multiple times - and the woman who sued had multiple third degree burns in her crotch which required a good bit of plastic surgery.
Next time you think she was some kind of gold-digger, think about doing the following: sit at your kitchen table and dump some boiling water straight out of a whistling kettle on your lap. The pain was real. The medical issues were real. The MacDonalds had been warned multiple times that the coffee they were serving was dangerously hot.