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  • Hot Coffee Documentary Illustrates the Insurance Industries Goal of Limiting Access to the Judicial System

    11/11/20111:43:30 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment

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    We posted a long time ago in anticipation of this movie.  Now that Hot Coffee has been released and shown to audiences for a number of months, we are again suggesting people take a look at the work that Susan Saladoff and others did in creating a movie that gives a great depiction of what the current landscape of personal injury litigation looks like.  Hot Coffee does a good job of presenting the side of insurance claims and injury lawsuits that is most often not experienced by the general public.  The movie uses the famous McDonald's hot coffee case as a backdrop for further discussion on how the insurance industry and big business lobby and spend enormous amounts of money to sway public opinion in an effort to limit their liability exposure.

     

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  • Hot Coffee Controversy

    11/7/20099:35:34 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment

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    The new documentary movie, Hot Coffee-"Is justice being served?", seeks to dispel the myth surrounding the famous McDonald's coffee burn case.  In Hot Coffee, producer, Carly Hugo and director, Susan Saladoff, have created a film that focuses on educating the audience about litigation and the United States civil justice system.  More often it is large corporations and insurance companies who are responsible for educating (or misinforming) socienty and influencing public opinion.  In Hot Coffee, Susan Saladoff, Carly Hugo and everyone else involved in the creation of this film seek to better inform the audience of the propaganda that goes on within the American civil justice system by using one of the most well-known American civl lawsuits, the McDonald's coffee case, as an example.  The movie will focus on the specific facts of the McDonald's coffee burn case to illustrate how insurance compaies and large corporation skew the facts in their favor to forward their political agendas with items such as tort reform.  I have not yet seen the movie, but I plan to as soon as screenings begin again in 2010.

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