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Disney is waiving arbitration in a wrongful-death suit filed by the husband of a woman who died after dining at a restaurant in its Disney Springs resort in Orlando last year. Jeffrey Piccolo is suing the company for $50,000 because his wife Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered an allergic reaction after…

As a widower takes Disney to court over his wife’s death at Walt Disney World and Resorts, the company is using its Disney+ streaming terms to attempt blocking the lawsuit. In a recent filing, Disney’s attorneys requested Jeffrey Piccolo’s $50,000 case be dismissed and settled out of court after…

The Mouse is still mighty, but there’s a dragon rising in the east. That’s the top-line takeaway from the latest edition of the 2023 TEA/AECOM Theme Index, an authoritative yearly survey of trends in the theme park industry. The Index is compiled by the Themed Entertainment Association and…

Disney’s now-abandoned Florida relocation plan for staffers has created some pretty dark legal skies. More than a year after the once again Bob Iger-run Disney dropped its Bob Chapek-era initiative to consolidate some California operations and employees in a new campus in Orlando's Lake Nona area, a…

UPDATE: The legal fight between The Walt Disney Co. and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is officially over. The company has dropped its appeal that challenged DeSantis’ moves to strip the company of control over a special district that covered its Florida theme park properties. A stipulation of…

After Disney declared victory in its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, CEO Bob Iger went on a theme-park offensive during the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Delivering scripted video remarks from a perch overlooking Disneyland, Iger extolled the parks as a key strategic area of…

Disney World’s Magic Kingdom has gone viral for honoring a ticket that was an "old family keepsake," said Matthew Ables, its owner. In a TikTok video that has been watched more than nine million times, Ables explains that the one-day pass — purchased in 1978 for $8 — had been "collecting dust" since…

Disney parks in the U.S., and especially abroad have been bolstering the company’s quarterly earnings coming out of Covid, and the company is investing to ensure that growth continues. Its Parks and Experiences division has laid out an ambitious schedule of openings for rides, attractions, hotels and…

Pete Simon, a Reedy Creek firefighter, had some thoughts about the recent decision by the DeSantis-appointed board that oversees the special district around Disney World to end what it called the “unethical benefits and perks” enjoyed by the 400 or so Reedy Creek Improvement District employees, including…

So much for moving on. In the latest salvo between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney, the board members of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District have accused their predecessors of using taxpayer funds to provide themselves with $2.5 million in “unethical benefits and perks,” mostly…

All DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs at the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District that includes Walt Disney World have been abolished, District Administrator Glenton Gilzean announced today. The board of the area of Orlando formerly called the Reedy Creek Improvement District said the…

"Does the state want us to invest more, employ more and pay more taxes or not?" Disney CEO Bob Iger rhetorically asked today of the on-going attacks on the Mouse House by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. "There’s .. a false narrative that we’ve been fighting to protect tax breaks as part of this,' the…