ACCIDENTS ON HOLIDAY
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN HOLIDAY HORROR STRIKES
Know you rights when holiday horror strikes. You've saved all year for a week or two of relaxation in the sun but what should you do if it turns into a holiday from hell?
INJURY OR INCONVENIENCE?
Sun seekers jetting off for their annual summer break on a package holiday are entitled to claim compensation if they suffer injury and / or inconvenience while thousands of miles away from home.
HELP IS AT HAND
Hopefully, you will have a wonderful holiday and you will arrive back home happy and relaxed. However, if you do have an accident abroad and are on a package holiday, there is a straightforward route to seek compensation.
PACKAGE HOLIDAY?
Providing the flight and hotel have been pre-arranged on the trip, your claim is against the tour operator and not the foreign hotel or attraction where you were injured.
FOOD POISONING OR ACCIDENT?
Davis Blank Furniss have acted for a large number of clients over the last five years who have been left with serious and distressing conditions as a result of accidents on holiday. A large number of cases have involved food poisoning but others include someone walking into a plate-glass window, one man was left with brain damage after being hit on the head by a lift and a number of people have had accidents on the balcony of their hotel apartment.
PERSONAL INJURY SPECIALIST KATE ADVISES:
It is important that if you have a serious complaint you raise it with the tour representative or the hotel at the time and that the details of the complaint is noted. "Taking photographs - as many as possible - is also useful if the case goes to court in a compensation claim.
"For holiday accidents where the flight and hotel were not arranged as a part of a package, legal action is still an option but will involve making a claim abroad against the organisation deemed liable.
CALL 0161 832 3304 FOR A CONSULTATION WITH A SOLICITOR AT DAVIS BLANK FURNISS
