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A Texas jury has ordered a restaurant chain to pay $2.8 million to a lady who filed a lawsuit after she was burned by BBQ sauce.
Genesis Monita, 19, sued Invoice Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises in October 2023 after she had been served sauce that gave her a second-degree burn earlier within the 12 months.
The incident passed off in Might 2023 when Monita ordered breakfast tacos with barbecue sauce from the restaurant, in response to courtroom paperwork seen by FOX 26 Houston.
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After taking the sauce out of the bag, Monita dropped it on her leg due to how scorching the container was and sustained a second-degree burn.
The restaurant’s coverage states that sauce is a minimal of 165 levels when it is served, in response to the lawsuit, and the sauce was reportedly 189 levels that day.
Genesis Monita, 19, sustained a second-degree burn from dropping barbeque sauce on her leg. (Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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Monita was awarded $2.8 million complete by a jury of six males and 6 girls on Friday.
Greater than $25,000 was paid to her for medical bills following her harm and $900,000 was for previous and future psychological anguish, bodily ache and impairment.
The restaurant franchise was discovered to be “grossly negligent” by the jury, awarding Monita $1.9 million in punitive damages.
The jury, which consisted of six males and 6 girls, discovered Invoice Miller Bar-B-Q to be “grossly negligent” within the case. (Spencer Weiner-Pool/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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Invoice Miller Bar-B-Q can enchantment the ruling, however nothing has been filed as of Sunday, in response to FOX 26.
The restaurant chain, which is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, was based in 1953 and has 75 places between the San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin areas.
