Posted on 08/21/2024 10:35:14 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The media giant has withdrawn a controversial attempt to settle a wrongful death case in arbitration. It had previously argued a one-month Disney+ subscription was a waiver against suing the company.
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Why is Disney being sued?
The lawsuit revolves around the death of Kanokporn Tangsuan, a doctor from New York, who ate with her husband and mother at the Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant on October 5, 2023.
They had chosen the location because it was advertised by both the restaurant and Disney as being particularly accommodating with food allergies.
However, despite seeking assurances from the wait staff, Tangsuan suffered an acute allergic reaction and died of anaphylaxis from elevated levels of nut and dairy in her system.
In its response to Disney's argument that the plaintiff was bound to arbitration, lawyers for Tangsuan's husband said it was "absurd" to say that the company's 150 million subscribers had waived their rights to sue the company over conditions written in the fine print of unrelated agreements signed years beforehand.
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Not sure where I thought I read she died at the hospital.
Rereading it I see it doesn’t say.
“Can you imagine the bank telling you that thousands of dollars in your savings account is just gone”
That’s actually a no-brainer for them. That money in a savings or interest bearing checking account is NOT YOURS. You are an “unsecured lender” and as such are at the VERY far back end of the line if that bank craters, notwithstanding the FDIC spreading around the 8-10 billion dollars they have insuring the several trillion dollars in savings and checking accounts.
I’ve always been careful of my immune system. In the 6 years of Navy service, I only took the vax that were required then once I hit the fleet, I was able to skirt vaxes by knowing people n calling in debts owed. My wife recently forced into a vax for her Biologic regimen, but our research showed the vax downside was better than the disease she is fighting to put into remission.
She did carry an Epi-pen, and she used it on herself when the symptoms came on.
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