You get it!
DS got injured twice in 3 months, with ER visits. Both times we got letters from the insurance company, basically asking us who caused this. Basically to find out who they could sue (or make US sue) to get out of being the ones that paid.
Different sort of insurance, but back in the 80s two of my lifelong classmates (who were the best of friends to each other) ended up with their families suing each other. One of them moved the others car (with permission) when there was alcohol involved, the car-mover hit a tree. It ended up with the car owner family suing the mover family and nearly destroyed a friendship. They didn't WANT to sue, but the insurance companies were involved and it was out of their hands. (please note I have a high school gossip understanding of what happened, this is not gospel)
Just because people want to ridicule those who file lawsuits doesn't mean they are all wrong. Just because people here want to pretend like nothing could EVER be Disney's fault doesn't mean it isn't sometimes their fault. Tort reform (according to my SIL who should know) has nothing to do with lawsuits being *filed*.
A friend from here...she and her mom were scootering back to PPH at
Disneyland, and there was an area of the parking lot where it tilted two different ways at once (I've walked it, and it's a WEIRD spot). At night, it's perfectly in shadow based on how the disney-installed streetlights hit it. Her elderly mom hit it (in the dark) just right/wrong, and fell over with her
scooter. She righteously had some long chats with them, because that sidewalk/driveway spot was WRONG. I'm pretty sure it has been changed in the intervening years, and that is GOOD.
There are some areas of Disneyland, and some areas of the rundisney event areas that are shockingly dark. Like no public place where you are walking or standing should be that dark, dark. (most likely at non-event WDW, too, but I haven't actually been inside the parks in awhile and I don't like WDW's parades or fireworks so I don't wait for them, and I don't know or remember) If someone were to be injured there, IMO a person is totally in the right to have disney pay. (or Universal in JCMM's case above)
This guy MIGHT have been the doofus most here think he is. But he might not have been. This might be totally righteous and suit-worthy.
), and the children all started playing games together while waiting for the fireworks and parade on Main St. It was VERY crowded, the party was sold out. The older children were all sitting on the ground in a circle in front of the curb, with adults standing around and talking. There was a stroller behind them on the curb. An older gentleman basically cuts through our group, and trips over the curb behind the kids. He then falls, and actually does almost take out the toddler in the stroller. One of the dads helped him up, annoyed he almost injured the child trying to rush and cut through the group. The man was angry and upset and walked off, but did not seem to need any real medical attention, certainly nothing that would warrant a lawsuit.
