For the record, the poor lady suffered 6% third-degree burns. The "over ten percent" includes more minor burns. A small detail, but it raised my suspicion that the author was putting his thumb on the scales to make his point stronger.

And it was a terrible verdict, by the way. It's common knowledge that coffee is brewed with boiling water and very often served immediately thereafter. The supposed "moral panic" story only had legs precisely because every reasonable person knew that the jury had been buffaloed by some (apparently, very good) lawyers in the unfamiliar context of a courtroom. One does not need to hold a brief for McDonald's to understand that.