For decades, the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit has been treated as proof that people can sue over anything. But the actual facts of Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants tell a very different story.

Bradford Keaty and Dr. Joseph Ramos revisit the case that changed how Dr. Ramos viewed attorneys. They discuss Stella Liebeck’s third-degree burns, the hundreds of prior burn complaints, why McDonald’s served its coffee at approximately 180 to 190 degrees, how comparative fault affected the verdict, and why the widely repeated $2.7 million figure does not reflect what she ultimately received.

The episode also opens with a listener question about how to find a trustworthy hormone replacement therapy provider and closes with the story of how Dr. Ramos’s first instructional flight ended in a plane crash.  ...