Long Beach city officials have opted to pay $300,000 to the family of a child who was allegedly burned by a Cup Noodles soup at a city-run day camp.
The city of Long Beach has agreed to pay $300,000 to the guardian of a child who was allegedly burned by a Cup Noodles soup at a city-run day camp in 2021.The City Council approved the settlement at its meeting Tuesday.
According to the complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the child attended the Silverado Park day camp Aug. 23, 2021, where she purchased a Nissin Cup Noodles for lunch.Rolling Hills Estates residents watch their world sink, hope to salvage memories after landslide Just the roof of Weber ‘Wei’ Yen’s home is visible from his street in Rolling Hills Estates. He worries over the mementos he may never get back.
The styrofoam container, the complaint said, should have been filled with hot water — as directed on the packaging. But staff allegedly filled it with water and then heated the entire container in the microwave. “[H]ot water was to be added to the Nissin Cup Noodles so that the water would not become unreasonably and dangerously hot and the Styrofoam packaging would not become compromised,” the plaintiffs wrote in the complaint.Benjamin T. Ikuta, an attorney with the firm that filed the suit on behalf of the girl,“The City of Long Beach obviously should not have handed a small child essentially a styrofoam cup of boiling water,” he said.
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