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Florida girl awarded $800,000 for McDonald’s Chicken McNugget burn

A Florida jury has awarded an eight-year-old girl $800,000 (£622,000) in damages after she was severely burned when a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget fell on her leg.

The “dangerously hot” McNugget burned Olivia Caraballo in 2019, then four, as she opened her Happy Meal in the car at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Tamarac, Florida.

Her family had sought $15m in damages.

A jury in May found McDonald’s and its franchise liable for the injury.

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