$668,000 verdict against Disney – premises liability – hot coffee spill

Families from all over the world go to Walt Disney World in Orlando to enjoy the resorts and character events.  This is a story of one such family whose trip ended tragically.

While on vacation with his family, our client and his wife treated their daughter to a “character breakfast” at one of the Walt Disney World resort hotels, The Polynesian Resort.  While enjoying their breakfast, a waitress walking by their table spilled an entire pot of steaming hot coffee in the lap of this 33-year-old man, causing 1st and 2nd degree burns to his groin and genitals. He recovered from the initial burns but was left with some peripheral nerve sensation deficits. John Leighton tried the case against Disney in Orange County Circuit Court, obtaining a verdict of $668,000. A.A. v. Walt Disney World.

 

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