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Led by industry insider and book author Dan Cox, the team of specialized legal consultants at our sister company Dan Cox & Associates can help your organization avoid costly lawsuits.

Dan Cox & Associates offer comprehensive training to prevent litigation in the first place, and provide independent expert coffee witness services and legal testimony, so you’re prepared if worse comes to worst.

If it does come to litigation, Mr. Cox has been hired to work on 50+ hot spill/burn lawsuits and testified in three which all resulted in decisions for the defense.

In the case of hot coffee beverages, there are minimum and maximum temperature ranges to achieve proper extraction and the favorable taste customers demand. Unfortunately, these temperatures often exceed certain burn thresholds. If there is an accident and a customer sues, knowing the scientific reasoning behind your brew can be the difference between a quick settlement and a costly lawsuit.

McDonalds isn’t the only company dealing with spilled hot coffee lawsuits. On any given day, there are roughly ten hot coffee, hot tea and hot chocolate lawsuits in progress. The majority of these cases revolve around coffee burns or someone getting burned by a spilled hot beverage.

In the case of hot coffee beverages, there are minimum and maximum temperature ranges to achieve proper extraction and the favorable taste customers demand. Unfortunately, these temperatures often exceed certain burn thresholds. If there in an accident and a customer sues, knowing the scientific reasoning behind your brew can be the difference between a quick settlement and a costly lawsuit.