Personal injury solicitors can help avert holiday accident nightmares
In the unfortunate event of a holiday accident adequate medical insurance (and/or a good personal injury lawyer) is vitally important to avoid the nightmare of expensive medical and repatriation costs.
In March 2009, the case of a 63-year-old man from South Yorkshire was highlighted in the press after a slip, trip and fall accident in Gran Canaria left him stranded there for four months.
The Grandfather was reportedly helping a wheelchair user down steps in Fuerteventura, but slipped on an olive which caused him to fall. He broke his neck in the holiday accident and the injury left him paralysed from the neck down.
He did not have sufficient medical insurance cover to be flown home and so, had to stay on the holiday island while friends and family desperately tried to raise funds.
It is unclear whether the accident was attributable to negligence on behalf of the tour operator or any official body on the island, but in such a case it would always be worthwhile contacting a personal injury solicitor to see if there is a case to heard.
If the legal viewpoint is that there is a legitimate case for holiday accident compensation then the personal injury lawyer may well be able to organise repatriation as a priority.
In the case of the Yorkshire man, his family had to commence a fund raising initiative to raise £22,000. Luckily, as he was a lifelong fan of Sheffield United FC, the club were happy to donate a portion of the proceeds from an auction at a Blades Class of 1990 dinner, and with the help of York-based Medi Aviation the man was finally flown home and taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Holiday accident compensation with the experts at YouClaim
If you have been in a holiday accident in which another party was either totally or partly to blame, then our personal injury lawyers will do their utmost to get you the compensation you deserve as quickly as is practicable.
What's more, apart from the most complex medical negligence cases where certain charges for medical reports are required in advance, we never ask our clients to pay legal fees and costs. We have developed a no win no fee system that completely protects claimants from all fees, even in a lost case. And in won cases any charges that have had to be paid will be reimbursed.
Further, YouClaim's claimants are guaranteed to receive 100% of any compensation awarded; we will never take a penny once a sum has been agreed.
Contact us today
You can speak confidentially to one of our friendly yet knowledgeable advisors by calling our free UK helpline on 0800 10 757 95 or we can always call you back at a time to suit you.
Alternatively, you may wish to fill in our online claim form giving us brief details of your claim and then one of our personal injury solicitors will look into the details of the holiday accident before we discuss going ahead with the claim.
