Disney quietly settles Indiana Jones death lawsuit

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Originally Posted by barfownz

Why wasnt this added to any Disney death sites. Like Snopes, for instance? I have never heard of this death.

I am not sure this would qualify under the Disney deaths that are recorded on fan sites. Those deaths usually occur within the park.* Plus I would go as far as to say this doesn't qualify as a Disney related death. This may have been one event in any number of events that ultimatly led to her death.


*deaths are not recorded within the park, even if a person is mangled or split in half, Disney and Anaheim have a long running unsaid agreement that the death is declared outside the bounds of the park. As a CM, the word death was not allowed at the scene of any accident.

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by sediment

If DL had a physician on duty at every intense ride, giving physicals and full-body MRI's to every guest, this woman wouldn't have died at the hands of Disney.

She'd have died at the hands of the thousands of people who wouldn't get to ride.

[NavyCopSB]

Originally Posted by Bruce Bergman

Then they'd have to hire a bunch of Notaries and Office people, to handle the 42-page Release Of Liability Form packet you have to fill out and sign for each day you visit...

not necessarily... they could just print it on the back of your ticket and make it an implied release that you give my entering the park. Oh wait... they already do. And I quote- "Each guest assumes the inherent risk associated with the operation of all rides and attactions"

[Bruce Bergman]

Originally Posted by NavyCopSB

not necessarily... they could just print it on the back of your ticket and make it an implied release that you give my entering the park. Oh wait... they already do. And I quote- "Each guest assumes the inherent risk associated with the operation of all rides and attactions"

But you can break boilerplate on the back of a ticket like that in court, and I've seen it done. Frogberto will probably back me up.

They put "Not responsible for loss or damage to vehicle or contents" on the signs and the back of the parking lot tickets - but if the victim proves that the lot attendant did not 'exercise reasonable care and control of property left in his care' but watched the car thief work and did nothing, the surveilance video tape shows the guy in there for an hour at a time, every night for weeks...

The victim subpeona'd the surveillance tapes, the phone records for the attendant's booth (no 911 or PD calls), brought in a thick stack of police reports of other cars being stripped systematically in that lot just in the preceding few months... And got paid for his vehicle damages in full, plus court and investigative costs.

Disney can put all the disclaimers up the want, and they will protect them - as long as they can prove they excercised 'reasonable care and control' over the safety issues.

An example of gross failure of that RC&C is the Torres incident on Big Thunder. One mechanic stops the repair work halfway through to go do something else, and never gets back to it...

And another worker signed the train off as 'safe to operate' without having personally checked it over, or talking to the first mechanic to find out that the work was NOT complete.

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[pineapplewhipaddict]

Fact of the matter is that if Disneyland goes to court, because it's settled in the Anahiem Court, there is a rooted favor for the park and as such they win the overwhelming majority of cases.