Overseas Accidents and Illness

If your holiday is ruined by falling over a loose paving slab by the pool and breaking your arm, do you decide to try a different hotel the following year or do you want to take action to recover compensation for the pain and suffering and also the spoiled holiday?

Overseas accidents and illness compensation

 

Have you had an illness on your holiday?

When you have saved up for the best part of a year for your annual fortnight’s holiday in the sun only for it to be spoilt by the food from the hotel’s "gourmet restaurant" giving you food poisoning do you accept the £30 vouchers offered by the tour operator or do you feel like taking the matter further?

Are you simply put off by the fact that you do not want to get involved in protracted litigation in a foreign country against a large corporation with seemingly unlimited funds? Are you afraid of how much it is likely to cost to take the dispute to court?

Help is at hand with the Hugh James Holiday Claims Team. We can help you to navigate your way around the obstacles that the tour operator may put in your path.

We offer a FREE first interview and, if we think you have a claim worth pursuing then we will consider taking it on under a "no win-no fee" agreement or under any legal expenses insurance that you have.

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Hugh James Overseas Accident & Illness experience

We have dealt with many holiday cases over the years, including:

  • Holidaymakers
  • Victims of transport accidents (for example the group action arising from the Gerona Air Crash, in which we were the lead solicitors coordinating claims brought by 170 passengers)
  • Employees of companies injured while working abroad
  • Recently settled claims on behalf of the family of an EU boiler worker who died in an accident at sea in Germany and three of his colleagues who were seriously injured when a boiler exploded on a ship

Our previous Group Action cases

We have secured thousands of pounds in compensation for victims of the following: 

  • Gerona Air Crash
  • "Sun Vista" Cruise Liner
  • Zeebrugge
  • P&O Lifeboat Accident
  • Salmonella Outbreak
  • Legionnaires Disease
  • Catastrophic Injury – Paraplegia & Tetraplegia

Call our claims enquiry hotline on 029 2078 5971 or fax 029 2078 6733

Or submit your enquiry online now


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Call our claims enquiry hotline on

029 2078 5971 or fax 029 2078 6733

Or submit your enquiry online now

Testimonials

"Couldn’t believe how quickly the claim was settled. I was expecting it to take much much longer"

S McConnell

 

"Whenever I needed advice on anything regarding my claim you were always very helpful, nothing was too much trouble…first class service"

S Moore

 

'Professionalism, courtesy, good service and sheer perseverance is something you do not always relate too when you speak or think about solicitors.

 
However, my personal experience just proves that Hugh James Solicitors are just possibly the exception. My personal case highlighted to me that when facing an up-hill legal struggle you need all the help you can get, and that is what I received. Even when opinion was against us, Hugh James knew they were in the right and fought even harder for me. Without hesitation I would recommend them, not only for their expertise but also for their caring attitude and levels of service'.
E Hines

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Overseas Accidents legal news

  • Rome II came into force on the 1 January 2009. Now victims of accidents abroad may only recover compensation at the levels of the country where the accident took place instead of their own country.

 

  • The Court of Appeal has ruled on the definition of a package holiday so that holidays assembled by a travel agent may not always come within the consumer protection aspect of the Package Tour Regulations 1992.

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