Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Someone got killed in your property you're liable.
Disney didn't have any sign on lake shore warning about alligator, and I don't think they have any written warning in any brochure about danger of alligator on their lakes.
The question is how much Disney and its insurance company will pay to the kid's parents.
Originally Posted By: bvance554
They had signs that said no swimming! Do they really need to list the reasons why you shouldn't swim? Its Florida. They have alligators.
We've seriously lost our [censored].
This is a terrible accident, but today, thanks to the non stop 24 hour news cycle, and social media where everyone has an opinion it has turned into a lynching of Disney. Is what we do. From Cecil the lion, the gorilla, everyone is allowed to have an opinion, and they have to pile on to what is trending as the favorable opinion just so they can feel good about themselves. Then the media fans the flames. No one is ever responsible for their own actions anymore, and there must be a public media lynching of whoever we have decided was the bad guy in the case. People don't have hobbies any more. They need to find something productive to do with their time instead of tweeting their opinion. Yes, I blame twitter. Not one [censored] positive thing has ever come out of twitter.
It isn't lynching Disney.
Accident happened and Disney didn't have clear sign warning about alligator.
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"When people think of Disney they think of magic, the unbelievable, and everything is going to be fun. This incident flies in the face of that," said Sam Singer, a crisis communications manager who represented the San Francisco Zoo after a tiger escaped and killed a teenage boy there in 2007.
The boy's family has not said it will file suit, saying in a public statement that they are "devastated" and thanking "local authorities and staff who worked tirelessly" after the attack.
But the possibility of a lawsuit makes Disney's response more complicated, experts said. "The more they say, the more liability they could potentially create for themselves," Singer said.
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"They are low key, contrite and helpful," Juda Engelmayer, a crisis manager at 5W PR, said of Disney's response. "That's all they can do at the moment."
They said one potential problem for the company could be that, despite creating an inviting beach environment with lounge chairs, Disney didn't post specific warnings about alligators, instead posting "no swimming" signs.
"These people are from Nebraska and I can guarantee never once did they think they were in any type of danger letting their child wade in six inches (15 cm) of water," said Orlando personal injury lawyer Lou Pendas, who has represented individuals in cases against Disney.
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Disney plans to install new signs warning of alligators in the area, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Pendas said he could only recall one other alligator attack in the 45 years that Disney has been operating in Florida, in the 1980s when an alligator bit an eight-year-old boy, who survived.
But, Pendas said, the rarity of such attacks did not relieve Disney of responsibility.
"This is unbelievably rare but could easily have been avoided by proper signage and perhaps building a retention wall to keep the alligators off the beach," he said. "
The law says you have to take appropriate steps to keep your invitees safe."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-faces-...nce.html?ref=gs
