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re: Legal question about the Florida Disney world tragedy
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:13 pm to tigerpimpbot
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:13 pm to tigerpimpbot
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No way
Disney is worth almost $200 billion. They will pay this family an insane amount of money so all parties can move on.
In 2000, a family reached settlement when a person was killed when a ride malfunctioned. Settlement was estimated to be $20 million.
Now I'm not saying one death is worse than another death, but this is a nightmare scenario for Disney. A 2 year old was killed in a horrible way by animals they knew lived in the waters they encouraged kids to play around.
They'll pay a very large amount to this family.
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Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:19 pm to tigerpimpbot
$100mm to protect the product is cheap.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:20 pm to LSUZombie
I agree, but unless there is some reckless indifference, or something else that would make it rise to the level of corporate punitive conduct, the settlement value is IMO not over $20 million. Jury valuation is a different analysis
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:21 pm to nc14
they would go to court and if an award was given that large the judge would reduce it. Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:26 pm to Topwater Trout
This one will be tried in the media, wise up.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:29 pm to nc14
How much fault gets assigned to the gator and the parents?
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:31 pm to nc14
You mean like on ABC?
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:31 pm to fatboydave
Well the gator is a wild animal...so none.
I'd say 80% on Disney; 20% on the family.
I'd say 80% on Disney; 20% on the family.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:32 pm to LSUZombie
What's going to piss me off is when other familes that were there try to sue Disney for "knowingly putting them in harms way" or having to witness something so traumatic.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:35 pm to The Tom Arnold
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What's going to piss me off is when other familes that were there try to sue Disney for "knowingly putting them in harms way" or having to witness something so traumatic.
That seems a bit much and I don't see how anyone trying to do that could be successful.
And DW has been comping everyone staying at the Grand Floridian when this happened. I read they were paying half a million a day in comped hotel fees.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:36 pm to The Tom Arnold
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What's going to piss me off is when other familes that were there try to sue Disney for "knowingly putting them in harms way" or having to witness something so traumatic.
There is a common law rule that prohibits that type of case in Florida.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:38 pm to fatboydave
1 and 1? What are you looking for?
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:38 pm to lsunurse
I wonder what the response would have been if the kid/family was Spanish and possibly wouldn't have been able to read any signs...
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:41 pm to ell_13
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I wonder what the response would have been if the kid/family was Spanish and possibly wouldn't have been able to read any signs...
Considering it is Florida I would imagine many of the signs in the park are already in English and Spanish.
ETA: And I'm assuming you meant the family spoke Spanish right? Or did you mean they were from Spain?
This post was edited on 6/16/16 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:44 pm to lsunurse
Racist
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:53 pm to lsunurse
Any language for the point in trying to make. Disney has lots of people from Brazil so Portuguese. Or Chinese. How are they "warned of hazards"?
Posted on 6/16/16 at 10:01 pm to ell_13
Pictures would meet the legal requirement for notice under Florida law. They have pictures of gators at other resorts on their warning signs just not where they had this beach at this property. But then again that's completely irrelevant here.
This post was edited on 6/16/16 at 10:04 pm
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