When you have an accident here in the UK and it wasn’t your fault, claiming compensation through a no win no fee personal injury solicitor is fairly straightforward. However, when you have an accident abroad the rules are more complicated in claiming compensation for your injuries.
First of all, a no win no fee personal injury lawyer in the UK would have to make the claim for compensation on your behalf against the company from which you booked the holiday in the first place. This can only be done if the travel agent used was from the UK, and if the accident that you suffered was as a result of their negligence and they were to blame.
Hotel staff or holiday reps would also be considered as part of the travel agency, so should your accident be as a result of hotel staff not drying the floor of the hotel lobby, and you slipped and fell, then you might be able to claim compensation against the travel agent.
Illness is also classed as personal injury, so if you contracted food poisoning and sickness through eating food provided by the travel agent’s hotel, you would be to make a no win no fee claim for compensation against the travel agent.
The travel agent would not be responsible however for the state of pavements or roads outside their hotel, so if you were to fall on the street in the local town, you could not claim compensation for your injuries.
