$800K Awarded to Florida Family for Chicken McNugget Burn

A Florida jury has ruled that $800,000 in damages should be awarded to the family of a girl that alleged hot chicken nuggets from a local McDonald’s franchise left her severely burned.

The lawsuit, originally filed in 2019, alleged that "unreasonably and dangerously" hot chicken nuggets were served in the Happy Meal and caused the skin and flesh around then-4-year-old Olivia Caraballo’s thighs to burn.

The lawsuit, filed by Olivia’s parents, Philana Holmes and Humberto Caraballo Estevez, claimed Olivia suffered second-degree burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg while sitting in the backseat of her mother’s car in a McDonald’s drive-thru.