According to a new lawsuit, in May of 2017 Lisa Dixon from Celebration, FL suffered a brain injury and herniated discs when a bird at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort slammed into her head.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that she and her lawyer are seeking $15,000 for unspecified damages, claiming that Disney was fully aware of the threat that seasonal nesting birds had on their guests.
Her lawyer, Thomas Schmitt, claims that Dixon will need surgery as a result of her brain injuries, and that the predicament has had an increasingly negative impact on her personal life and career.
Dixon’s case is a just one of many animal related lawsuits that Disney and its lawyers have had to face in recent years. In an equally eyebrow-raising situation, a family from Alabama sued Disney in 2016 for their grandmother’s death. They claim that she died from a heart attack after seeing a snake from Animal Kingdom fall out of a tree and bite her great grandson.
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This article appears in May 23-30, 2019.