Group Holiday Illness Claims and how they can work for you

Group Holiday Illness Claims, Group Actions, or Holiday Illness Group Actions occur when a group of holidaymakers make a joint claim against the tour operator.

A group claim strengthens a claim for compensation particularly in cases of holiday illness or food poisoning. Food poisoning, particularly in large hotels, often causes outbreaks of illness where many people are ill with similar symptoms after eating the same food.

Holiday representatives will often try to cover up any wrong doing by the tour operators and will rarely accept responsibility for outbreaks of food-related illness. For this reason alone, if you become ill at a holiday hotel and you suspect that poor standards of hygiene and/or food are to blame for your sickness, you should speak to other holidaymakers who are suffering similar symptoms and exchange contact details in case you want to bring a joint claim against the tour operator when you return home.

If you become sick in a holiday hotel, you should immediately report your illness to the holiday representative at the hotel and ask for a copy of the report they complete.  You should also seek medical help in the resort if necessary and always see your GP when you return home so they can confirm the illness you were suffering from.

Many UK holidaymakers are not aware that they can claim compensation for holiday illness abroad when they return to the UK under the Package Travel Regulations 1992. Tour operators will always try to deny liability for any outbreaks of illness in package holiday hotels, but we are experts in the complicated field of travel law and we can help you obtain the compensation you deserve.

We can help any holidaymakers who have suffered sickness abroad in hotels in Egypt, Turkey, Dominican Republic, the Maldives, Mexico, Cuba or any other destination in the world, provided you were staying in a hotel which was booked as part of a package holiday.

Holidaymakers who suffer illness abroad have three years in which to make a claim against the tour operator, although it is advisable to contact us as soon as possible when the details of the illness are still fresh in your mind. If you have suffered any type of illness abroad and you want to make a claim for compensation, Farnworth Rose can help you. We work on a no win no fee basis and you keep 100% of the compensation.

Our Holiday Claims Expert, Anne Thomson, has over 25 years’ experience of dealing with holiday illness Group Actions and she will be happy to discuss the claims process with you and advise you fully.  Please call Anne on 080001 54321 or fill in the online claim form.