A South Florida jury has awarded $1.18million (US$800,000) in damages to a little 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 $22 million in damages. Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating for less than two hoursy, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.The jury's verdict form allotted $600,000 in damages for the past four years, and another $600,000 for the future from the McDonald's USA and its franchise operator, Upchurch Foods. A separate jury decided in May that the company and franchise owner were liable for the injury, which occurred outside a McDonald's in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale.
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