Disney tourist wins $668,000 for hot coffee spilled in lap

By Henry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer

A tourist from South Florida who had a pot of 180-degree coffee spilled into his lap while at a Disney character breakfast has been awarded $668,000 by an Orange County jury, the man's lawyer said Wednesday.

The pot fell off a tray carried at shoulder height by a waitress at the Polynesian Resort's Ohana Feast. The three-day civil trial before Orange Circuit Judge William C. Gridley showed coffee was not supposed to be carried that way, Miami lawyer John Elliott Leighton said.

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