I'm sure she's fine and probably ready to ride to her heart's content now that she has some freedom to enjoy what she likes without the pretense of legal disclosures. I'm sure United Parks & Resorts Inc cared little about her whether it was true or not that her claims reached the level of the damages she requested (even in the face of rounding error cost insurance policies meant to cover such a thing), but we know that often the damages requested are inflated regardless of the validity of the claim itself in hopes that the two parties might settle somewhere mutually agreeable. David needed the rock and slingshot after all. It's not like they put the bird there to get Fabio'd, but I can see how a rider might expect that a park operating high speed rides has measures in place to quell any impediment within reason. Really just depends who you ask what within reason means. An Orange County judge does not seem as impartial as idealistic portrayals of the justice system suggest. That's certainly an American perspective on litigation, but I digress. Seems like a draw at the end of the day. Just a draw, bluster, and a quiet evening signifying a town big enough for the both parties to bitch with the associated fanfare about the disagreement on either side of the saloon. Both parties walked away with surface wounds (from having engaged in the litigation to begin with) at best, but primarily lost time (billable tbf) and effort having operated in bad faith (I don't think I need to reiterate why that may be for a bottom line corporation and someone operating from the bottom). NYSE: PRKS will have barely felt the intrusion on operations as a multi million dollar corporation and be made whole, while the non ducking Fabia gets saddled with, an almost undoubtedly, proportionally larger burden for daring to bring up her loss in the face of all the joys and PRKS of a corporation with such magnanimous intentions (that definitely does not have insurance policies greatly in excess of the 50k paid for by the patronage of the people that may or may not be getting Fabio'd ).
Tbh, I find it weird we often so quickly side with Goliath in these situations as if patrons are just waiting for the wings of fate (or on the off chance actual negligence) to provide them with the opportunity to malign a place they probably like to some degree.
I think "knocked unconscious by a bird" on a high speed ride built by a corporation that I'm sure has safety as their top priority is different from your garden variety waaahmbulance chaser, but even with the time, education, and history to know better we prefer to put things in simple buckets. Buckets that somehow always turn out to be full of poop and yet ready to be flung at one another.
Being a good CAPitalist and telling the "bum" on the street to get a job around the corner from the play place you choose to spend your big PPP loan or subsidized salary from corporations too big to fail and too big to pay taxes really just isn't the flex it used to be.