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Coffee: Too Hot To Handle or Mishandled: A Guide to Hot Beverage Spills and Burn Lawsuits

by Dan Cox

Hot beverage spills and litigation

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Hot beverage spills and litigation

Dan Cox’s guide examines the issues that arise when hot beverages spill and lead to consumer lawsuits. It brings together common causes and claims in this area of litigation with scientific information on beverage temperatures, brewing standards, consumer preferences, spills, and scald burns. The book also sets out spill-prevention suggestions and recommendations for commercial operating practices, alongside material on risk management and preparing a legal defense. Its scope connects practical concerns in beverage service with the scientific and legal questions involved in burn claims.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Hot beverage industry professionals considering spill-prevention practices
  • Lawyers working with consumer injury or product-related litigation
  • Retail operators seeking information on risk management and hot beverage claims

Themes

Hot beverage litigationSpill preventionScald burns and beverage temperaturesCommercial risk management

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Book overview

In Too Hot to Handle or Mishandled? A Guide to Hot Beverage Spills & Burn Lawsuits, a follow-up to his first book Handling Hot Coffee published 2013, author and coffee industry expert Dan Cox brings his expertise to address the underlying issues of hot beverage spills and consumer lawsuits.

This comprehensive reference for the hot beverage industry and its lawyers reviews the common causes and claims in hot beverage litigation, provides pertinent scientific information about beverage temperatures in terms of brewing standards, consumer preferences, spills and scald burns. It also offers concrete, practical suggestions for spill prevention as well as Coffee Enterprises recommendations for Best Practices for Commercial Operations.

Too Hot to Handle or Mishandled? also serves to help retail establishments develop risk management strategies for spill prevention and includes pertinent scientific and research-based information to help prepare a successful defense if sued.

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