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Florida Jury Awards $800K to Girl Burned by Hot McDonald's Chicken McNugget

  • A Florida family sued McDonald's after their 4-year-old daughter suffered burns from a hot chicken nugget in 2019.
  • The family sought $15 million in damages but was awarded $800K by a Broward County jury.
  • The jury found McDonald's and its franchisee liable for failing to provide warnings about the risk of hot food.
  • The girl's mother testified that her daughter is scarred and disfigured from the incident.
  • The case has drawn comparisons to the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit in the 1990s.
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