Pages On: Hotel Accidents

Hotels, like any other public place, have a duty of care to protect customers from harm. However, accidents in the form of slips, trips and falls, as well as those from faulty equipment have been known to happen. If a hotel has caused you injury, you may be entitled to claim occupiers liability compensation, even if they have tried to sign your right away to do so.

Wedding ruined by foot injury in hotel

Posted: 30 November 2015

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Hotel Accidents, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents

47-year-old Lesley Hegarty has been awarded a five-figure sum of compensation after a foot injury suffered during the morning of her wedding ruined her entire day. The incident happened at Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel in May 2011. At 9:30am Mrs Hegarty went through the main entrance’s revolving doors to go outside after her breakfast. As she went through the doors, however, she hit the back of her right heel. As she shouted for help, she realised there was blood everywhere. It was found that a screw had been missing from the…

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Family narrowly misses injury and food poisoning on ‘holiday from hell’

Posted: 29 July 2015

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Food Poisoning, Hotel Accidents

A British family has described their all-inclusive Thomas Cook break as a ‘holiday from hell’. Alan and Sarah O’Rourke from Cheshire had high expectations after spending £1,500 on the family holiday at the four-star Cabogata Mar Hotel & Spa in Spain, which were quickly shattered. Mr O’Rourke narrowly missed serious injury after the bathroom tiles began to fall on him in the shower, followed by the family being served raw sausages in the hotel restaurant. Mrs O’Rourke said that she noticed damage to the bathroom tiles when they first arrived…

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Hammer attack victim left with severe brain injuries

Posted: 13 April 2014

Posted in: Arm Injury, Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Hotel Accidents

A victim of a hotel hammer attack has been left with only 5% brain function and severe facial injuries. The woman was with her two sisters at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch when the attack happened earlier this month. The attacker, 33-year-old Philip Spence, has been remanded in custody charged with three accounts of attempted murder. The main victim suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, including the loss of large quantities of blood, the loss of one eye, and a significant loss of brain function. Despite this, her other organs are in…

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