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Disney Says Man Whose Wife Died at Resort Can’t Sue Because He Had a Disney+ Subscription
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Disney Says Man Whose Wife Died at Resort Can’t Sue Because He Had a Disney+ Subscription

Published August 15, 2024
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Disney is currently trying to get a “wrongful death” lawsuit thrown out on the basis that the grieving widower who brought the case signed up for a free-trial of Disney+ five years ago. The company’s streaming services has a policy that redirects legal grievances from litigation to forced arbitration. Corporate lawyers are now arguing that this policy is somehow relevant to a case involving a woman’s death at one of its resorts.

CNN reports that the plaintiff in the case, Jeffrey Piccolo, filed a lawsuit after his wife, 42-year-old medical doctor Kanokporn Tangsuan, died at Disney Springs, one of the company’s Florida locations, in 2023. Piccolo and Tansuan had dined at one of the resort’s restaurants, where they were repeatedly assured by their waiter that Tansuan’s meal could be prepared without dairy or nuts, ingredients to which Tansuan was deathly allergic. Not long after eating the meal, Tansuan went into anaphylactic shock and passed away. A medical examiner’s investigation into Tansuan’s death found that her “cause of death was as a result of anaphylaxis due to elevated levels of dairy and nut in her system,” the suit states.

Now, Disney is claiming that Piccolo can’t sue the company because he briefly signed up for a free trial of Disney+, the company’s streaming service, in 2019. Disney+ includes a clause in its terms and conditions that says all legal action must be funneled through forced arbitration—an increasingly common legal tactic that allows companies to avoid facing litigation. The company has claimed that Piccolo also used the My Disney Experience app to buy tickets to the Epcot theme park—a service that sports similar legal language.

Piccolo’s lawyer called the company’s argument “preposterous” and wrote in court papers that Disney is “explicitly seeking to bar its 150 million Disney+ subscribers from ever prosecuting a wrongful death case against it in front of a jury even if the case facts have nothing to with Disney+.”

“The notion that terms agreed to by a consumer when creating a Disney+ free trial account would forever bar that consumer’s right to a jury trial in any dispute with any Disney affiliate or subsidiary, is so outrageously unreasonable and unfair as to shock the judicial conscience, and this Court should not enforce such an agreement,” Piccolo’s lawyers further wrote.

According to CNN, Piccolo is asking Disney—a company worth $155 billion—for damages in excess of $50,000, including for emotional distress, loss of companionship and protection, loss of income, and medical and funeral expenses. The company’s response is apparently: Sorry, we can’t help you because you signed up to watch The Mandalorian five years ago. This may be the best reason yet to never go anywhere near the company’s mediocre streaming service.

Gizmodo reached out to Disney to see if they have some sort of excuse for this bullshit and will update this story if it responds.

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