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A New York City woman is suing McDonald’s after allegedly sustaining “serious and severe personal injuries and burns to [her] mouth and tongue, as a result of being served extremely hot fries,” according to a civil complaint obtained by The Independent.
Luongo should never have been “permitt[ed] and allow[ed]” to “be served and consume extremely hot and overheated fries,” the complaint states.
In 2013, the chain was hauled into court by a Massachusetts mom who sued after her 3-year-old daughter suffered first- and second-degree burns on her thighs from an order of “unreasonably and dangerously hot” fries.
“As a direct and proximate cause of the unreasonably and dangerously hot French Fries, M.C. is now disfigured and scarred,” the lawsuit claimed.
open image in gallery Catherine Luongo claims she was injured by an order of scaldingly hot fries she purchased at a McDonald's on East 42 Street in Manhattan ( Google Maps ). »