According to reports today, a 60-year-old Dublin man was looking for €38,000 in compensation from the world’s largest coffee retailer after cutting his arm on a coat hanger in the jacks.
It’s not everyday that you walk into a Starbucks for a cup of fresh joe and walk out with a cut on your arm and a €38,000 claim, but that’s exactly what happened to 60-year-old Chris Kane from Stillorgan around this time back in 2010.
According to reports, Mr Kane cut his arm on an “unprotected sharp” edge of a coat hanger in the jacks of a Ballsbridge Starbucks in May 2010, however, he claimed that the First Aid treatment he had received at the premises had been inadequate. Well, it is Starbucks, not A&E…
Apparently, the cut left a 13cm long cut that was painful and occasionally bled for a week, so Mr Kane sued for negligence.
Starbucks initially denied any liability and prepared a full defence, but Judge Alan Mahon today heard that the matter had been settled out of court so he had the case struck off, according to the Irish Independent.
The sum of the settlement wasn’t disclosed to the media, so Mr Kane could have walked away with his initial €38,000 claim, or maybe he just got a free coffee. Who knows?
