Disney is trying to get a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a New York University doctor’s grieving husband tossed — because he signed up for the Disney+ streaming service years earlier, court papers said.
Kanokporn Tangsuan’s bereaved widower, Jeffrey Piccolo, is suing the theme park juggernaut, claiming that she suffered a fatal allergic reaction shortly after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant in Florida last October.
But Disney is claiming the $50,000 suit should be moved out of the courts because Piccolo agreed to arbitrate all disputes with the company when he first signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service back in 2019, court documents charge.
I foresee a good lawyer and sensible judge telling Disney that EULA is bullshit and the case moves forward. The correlation between a streaming service agreement and culpability of a food allergy death in their theme park is not even in the same universe.
Fuck you Bob.
Disney already walked this back after the public backlash.
Also, they apparently do not own the restaurant, despite it being on their property. They originally wanted to be removed from the lawsuit altogether.
From digging around, the arbitration clause push wasn’t because of the D+ account specifically, but because of they booked tickets using their Disney account which included this language (pretty sure all theme parks have this shit in the fine print)
