• Holiday Accidents

    Read about bringing a claim for compensation following an accident on holiday

  • Illness

    Read about making a claim for an illness contracted abroad on holiday

  • Sea

    Read more about bringing a claim following an accident or illness at sea

  • Road Traffic

    Read about making a claim following road traffic accidents abroad

  • Aviation

    Read about our experience with dealing with air accidents

  • Serious Injury

    We have years of experience of handling serious and catastrophic injury claims

  • Other Accidents

    Read about our experience with dealing with other types of accident abroad

How it works...

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Call Irwin Mitchell Solicitors now on 0870 024 0560 or complete the claim form to register your claim.

One of our trained staff will call you back as soon as possible for a free initial consultation to discuss your case in more detail and advise you further. If you have a case, we assign our best staff with the expertise to handle your claim.

We will investigate and build evidence to back up your case. We may in some cases obtain the opinion of a lawyer practicing in the country where your accident occurred for further advice.

Once we have all the relevant information, we will send a letter of claim to the Defendant and then correspond with their representatives. We will keep in touch with you throughout, so you’re always informed.

Finally, with your approval, we arrive at the best compensation settlement possible.

Holiday Accidents

Experience

We have unrivalled experience in acting for clients who have been injured on holiday in countries around the world.

Basis of a Holiday Claim

Package Holidays

The Package Travel, Package Tours and Package Holidays Regulations 1992 may apply to your claim if your cruise or carriage by sea or inland waterway was included in your package and you did not enter into a separate contract of carriage. The regulations make a tour operator or other holiday provider or organiser responsible for all services which are provided as part of a package holiday including this carriage.

Other types of holiday

Not all holidays are package holidays. For instance, you may have booked your hotel and flight separately.  Further, your accident may have occurred during an excursion booked in resort which was not included in your pre-booked package. In such cases, you may still have a claim against the hotel or excursion provider.

Where you can bring your claim

The Package Travel Regulations may allow you to bring your claim against your tour operator in the U.K. Where there is the option to bring a claim in the U.K., it is often advisable to do so because levels of damages awards are often higher than in other jurisdictions and legal costs are normally paid if you win your claim.

Even if you did not purchase a package holiday, you may still have a claim in the country where your accident occurred. We have specialists in the laws of many countries who will be able to advise you further.

Time limit

NOTE!! If you were on a package holiday and you are able to bring a claim under the Package Travel Regulations, you must normally bring your claim within 3 years of the date of the accident. If you were not on a package holiday, and wish to bring a claim in the country where your accident occurred, then time limits do vary from country to country and from state to state and are sometimes as short as 12 months from the date of the accident. It is therefore important that you contact us as soon as possible for advice. Remember, we offer a FREE initial consultation.

Successful cases

We have been involved with hundreds of successful holiday accident claims over the years recovering millions of pounds in compensation. Here are a few examples (click on the link to read more):-

  •  £140,000 recovered on behalf of the estate of a holidaymaker who drowned in Equador. More
  • £30,000 recovered so far for a 9 month old baby burnt in an apartment in Malta. More

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When I tried to deal with the tour operator myself, I got nowhere and I almost lost heart. Without the help of Irwin Mitchell’s travel team, I would have given up. 

Sheila, Glasgow