An Orange County jury decided Monday that there was nothing unsafe about Walt Disney World‘s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride, ending a lawsuit brought by a Philadelphia man who said it caused his stroke in 1998.
Concluding a three-week trial in Orange County Circuit Court, the three-woman, three-man jury deliberated about three hours Monday before agreeing with the Walt Disney World Co. that the ride is not dangerous and that Disney was not negligent in providing it as an attraction.
The verdict ends a rare legal challenge. The case is the first in more than six years in which a jury got to hear complaints alleging safety problems on a Central Florida theme-park ride. Many other ride-related suits were filed during that period, but so far all those that have been resolved were either settled or dismissed before reaching trial.
Marvin Cohen, now 80, filed his suit in 2002, saying he had no idea that the Tower of Terror was a high-speed thrill ride when he boarded it in 1998 with members of his family, including a granddaughter. He said one of the sudden drops might have caused his head and neck to move in such a way that he suffered a tear in an artery leading to his brain, and that led to a debilitating stroke a few weeks later.
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