Christian Schwägerl

First #Disney tried to fend off a wrongful-death lawsuit by invoking an agreement with a widower from a free trial of the Disney+ streaming service. Now #Uber tells a couple severely injured in a car crash that they can’t go to court because their 12 year old daughter had agreed to limiting legal claims to arbitration when she ordered a pizza a year earlier.

Beware those “Terms of Use”…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/nyregion/uber-eats-car-crash-injury-nj.html #customerrights #verbraucherschutz

How an Uber Eats Order Unraveled a Couple’s Injury Lawsuit

A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that they had agreed to settle disputes out of court when they used the Uber Eats app.

The New York Times
Oct 4, 2024 at 10:45amToot!
Show threadTill WestermayerOct 4, 2024
@christianschwaegerl Klingt so, als wäre das in DE sittenwidrig. Hoffe ich jedenfalls.
Show threadCiferOct 4, 2024
@christianschwaegerl I am so incredibly glad I live in the EU where this kind of crap just doesn't fly. I translated several EULA that basically boiled down to "By being vaguely aware of the existence of license agreements as a general concept, you agree to hand over your firstborn and handle any disputes via pistols at dawn in Smalltown, USA - unless you're a EU citizen, in which case please don't look at us while we go cry in a corner mourning our limitless power."