Family sues Disney Cruise Line after child broke both wrists in a bunk bed fall

A family is suing Disney Cruise Line after their daughter rolled out of a Murphy-style bunk bed on Disney Wonder and broke both wrists. The suit claims the guardrail didn’t run the bed’s full length. Disney hasn’t commented on the case.

Disney Cruise Line is facing a lawsuit after a child was injured falling from a bunk bed on one of its ships.

Before anything else: these are allegations in a lawsuit that hasn’t been decided. Disney hasn’t answered the claims in court, and the account below comes from the family’s filing.

The suit was filed in the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Florida, on May 18, 2026. The child is identified only as C.S. and is suing through her parents.

What the Disney Cruise Line lawsuit claims happened

The accident happened on the night of July 30, 2024, during an Alaska cruise on the Disney Wonder. The lawsuit was filed nearly two years later.

The family was staying in a Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom, cabin 2508, which sleeps up to four guests and includes a Murphy-style bunk bed. According to the suit, C.S. went to sleep in the bunk between 8 and 9 p.m.

The bed had a railing, but per the filing, it didn’t run the entire length of the bed. Around 1 a.m., the suit says, the child rolled in her sleep and fell through the gap where the railing stopped.

She broke both of her wrists in the fall, including a fracture to the growth plate in her right wrist. The family is seeking damages over $50,000 and has asked for a jury trial.

The three negligence claims against Disney

The family’s firm, Aronfeld Trial Lawyers, has accused Disney Cruise Line of three counts of negligence. All of these are the plaintiff’s allegations, not findings.

First, the suit claims Disney failed to provide reasonably safe accommodations because the guardrail didn’t extend the full length of the bunk.

Second, it says Disney failed to warn passengers about the hazard. The filing argues the risk wasn’t obvious to a sleeping child and that Disney should have known about the gap. According to the suit, Disney had knowledge of the dangerous condition and did not warn passengers of the risk of falling.

Third, the family claims Disney is responsible for the employees or contractors who designed, installed, approved, or inspected the bed, and that they failed to identify the short guardrail as dangerous or fix it.

Disney Cruise Line has not commented on the case

Disney has not responded publicly to the lawsuit. Cruise Hive, which reported the filing, said it reached out to Disney Cruise Line and did not receive a response before publishing.

So at this stage, only one side has spoken. Disney will have its chance to answer in court, and lawsuits often look different once the other party responds.

For what it’s worth, Disney Cruise Line publicly states that guest and crew safety is its top priority, pointing on its website to crew training, safety drills, and equipment inspections as part of how it operates its ships.

Disney has modified ships after past safety incidents

Disney does have a track record of changing things on its ships after a problem comes to light, which is worth noting as context rather than as any comment on this case.

After a child fell through an open porthole on the Disney Dream while posing for a photo, Disney added plexiglass and railings to the portholes. And after a toddler was hurt falling from a coral fixture at Nemo’s Reef, Disney modified that splash pad.

Whether anything changes with the bunk beds will depend on how this case plays out. The Disney Wonder is sailing normally in the meantime, homeporting in Vancouver for the Alaska season, the same route it was running when the accident happened.

The case is early. It was filed in May, Disney hasn’t answered, and there’s no trial date.

Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.

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Hat Tips:

• Cruise Hive (July 31, 2026), Catie Kovelman’s reporting on the lawsuit filing, the accident details, the three negligence counts, Disney’s non-response, and the past ship modifications