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Bed bugs are the source of many jokes but, if you or your family have suffered from their bites, you know that contact with these blood-suckers is no laughing matter, however, you may be entitled to holiday accident compensation should you have been attacked while away from home.
When a person or business is paid by a customer for the service of sleeping on their premises, the proprietors of such establishments – hotels, guest houses, B & Bs, hostels, pubs and campsites – have a duty of care to provide safe premises with minimal risk of harm occurring to their clients.
Many holiday accidents and injuries occur through poor maintenance and care of premises or equipment whereby an unsuspecting guest can suffer from hazards such as fraying carpet leading to a trip, electrocution from unsafe power supplies or a fall on unlit steps. Illness can occur through poor hygiene regimes and bed bug infestation comes into this category.
The re-emergence of bed bugs as a problem for travellers has come about because of the continuing popularity of world travel, both for business and pleasure, ensuring the creatures are moved to new hosts and their growing resistance to common insecticides, meaning that extra fumigation is required to clear a building of the problem.
The tiny insects, which are about the size of a ladybird, don't necessarily live in dirty surroundings, rather they enjoy being around large numbers of warm-blooded creatures so that they have a ready supply of food.
In the vast majority of cases, the bites are not dangerous to human health but cause severe itching and, of course, will spoil the enjoyment of a holiday if they are sufficient to be distressing. A few people may have allergic reactions or develop infections through the bites, resulting in other health problems.
Hotels have the ability to control bed bugs by ensuring linen and similar soft furnishings are cleaned at high temperature and that effective pest control is carried out at regular intervals.
This type of cleaning regime may become necessary in a victim's home if on return from holiday some of the bed bugs have returned in the luggage and proceed to infest the holiday-maker's bed, sofa, curtains, carpets and every other nook and cranny.
Professional pest removal operators are able to deal with removal of the creatures but this can be an expensive and inconvenient procedure, a further consequence of the hotel's negligence in failing to maintain the safest premises for its guests.
With bed bug infestation a growing problem, this type of holiday injury claim is becoming a more frequent source of compensation for people who have had their travels spoilt by lack of care from an accommodation proprietor or package tour company.
YouClaim for holiday accident compensation
Victims of an attack by bed bugs may consider making a holiday accident compensation claim when they return to the UK, both for the lack of planned enjoyment and for later consequences such as the cost of replacing or cleaning items infested with the insects.
The personal injury solicitors of YouClaim have experience in helping people who have suffered harm for a wide variety of reasons while away from home and they can help you, too.
In many cases, we can use the no win no fee system, meaning that you keep 100% compensation without deduction for our charges.
Thanks to the internet, wherever you live in the UK, you can access the same high standard from our legal team who have an outstanding track record in achieving damages for justified claims in accidents which are not the fault of the victim.
To find out if we can help you or a loved one make a case for holiday accident compensation, you can use the claim form on this webpage to give us initial information, start an echat with one of our helpful staff, ask us to telephone you at a mutually-convenient time or call us free now on 0800 10 757 95
