Yep, reminds me of the McDonald's coffee incidence. When a McDonald's store, which had received over a dozen complaints about the temperature of the coffee, never did anything to fix the situation, and when a women spilled some on herself, causing large areas of 3rd degree burns, sued to cover medical costs, and was awarded a couple million in punitive damages.
Of course, and I remember this vivdly as a kid, they launched a massive media campaign, painting her as a greedly, careless person, they suggested corporations are constantly the victims of frivolous lawsuits and there are people making millions through the courts, that people in America are just always going around suing over the littlest things, etc.
I mean, it was really just a (successful) campaign to control torts. Basically corps successfully reduced the cap on how much can be awarded in punitive damages, so they can't be sued for as much, no matter how egregious their actions.
Of course, America is in no way a particularly litigious society. That entire thing was a myth.