Family Accuses Disney Eatery In LI Woman's Allergy-Related Death: Suit

CARLE PLACE, NY — The family of a Carle Place physician has filed a lawsuit with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and the Disney Springs restaurant where she died eating in October, court documents say.

Kanokporn Tangsuan was a doctor of osteopathy, who had a family practice on Mineola Avenue. She had 16 years of medical experience.

Tangsuan was 42.

"Dr. Tangsuan was a physician with NYU Langone. We are saddened by her passing and our deepest condolences are with her family," a spokesperson for NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, told Patch.

According to the lawsuit, filed on Feb. 22 in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Orange County, Florida, Tangsuan and her husband Jeffrey Piccolo chose the Raglan Road Irish Pub because they felt the restaurant would properly address her severe allergy to dairy and nuts.

They told the server about Tangsuan's food allergies, and they "questioned the waiter about various items on the menu to confirm whether they had allergens in them or not," the suit claims.

The server confirmed that items could be made "allergen free" and he said "he could," the complaint said.

Patch left a message for Piccolo's lawyer, Brian Denney, who handles personal injury cases in Florida.

The dishes came to the table without "allergen-free flags," and the couple asked the server, again, to be sure they were without allergens. The waiter "guaranteed the food being delivered was allergen free," the complaint states.

Within an hour of the meal, Tangsuan had severe difficulty breathing and collapsed at a nearby restaurant due to a "severe acute allergic reaction to the food served at Raglan," the complaint says.

She used her EpiPen and a passerby called 911, the suit alleges.

Patch attempted to get a comment from Walt Disney World.

The lawsuit seeks more than $50,000 in damages.