Walt Disney World Sued For Wrongful Death
Walt Disney World had a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it by the mother of a former monorail driver who was killed in a monorail collision. According to details in the lawsuit Adam Wuennenberg was operating a monorail train for Walt Disney World when another monorail switched tracks and backed into him. The accident was so severe that Wuennenberg had to be extricated from the monorail and later died of injuries sustained in the train accident. The lawsuit alleges that Walt Disney World failed to put in place safety procedures which could have prevented the collision.
According to reports, investigations into the accident revealed that the monorail system coordinator was not at this assigned post when the accident occured. In a piece of good news for the plaintiff in this case, a Wat Disney World employee admitted to erroneously activating a track switch which seems to be the primary case of the train collision. In a related piece of news Walt Disney World was fined $32,500 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") for safety violations.
