Jury awards Florida girl burned by Chicken McNugget $800,000 damages

Philana Holmes, right, hugs her attorney, Keyla Smith, after a jury awarded her 800,000 dollars on behalf of her daughter Olivia Caraballo, now eight, who was burned by a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP/PA)

Fri, 21 Jul, 2023 - 06:42

Associated Press reporters

A South Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a girl who received second-degree burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg as her mother pulled away from the drive-thru of a McDonald’s restaurant.

Lawyers for the family of Olivia Caraballo, who was four when she was burned in 2019, were seeking $15m in damages. Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating for less than two hours on Wednesday, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.