Travel Claims

Many injury claims involve people who are on package holidays, and there are regulations which make it possible to sue the tour operator in this country, where it can be shown that the actual supplier of the services (typically the hotel or other tourist complex) has been at fault in connection with what was provided.

Typical claims involve defective hotel premises (often involving swimming pools), food poisoning and accidents occurring on transfer. 

There is a separate regime which governs accidents in the course of air travel, which include embarking and disembarking from an aircraft.  In such cases, the carrier would normally have a strict liability for injury which occurs. 

Examples of this dealt with by Harris Fowler include a case where a seated airline passenger was injured by a negligently stowed package which fell from the compartment above, together with a successful claim made on behalf of a person injured whilst using a moving walkway in the course of embarking a flight at a Spanish airport.