Have You Been Ill On A Package Holiday In The Last 3 Years ?

[wolf63]

I heard an advert for this company on the radio the other day. I think that it is a good idea if someone has genuinely suffered due to negligence but it may be open to abuse. Or am I just too cynical ???

https://www.sickholiday.com/

[jno]

Ambulance-chasing lawyers. But I don't know if it's specially open to abuse. You'd still have to prove your case. And tour operators do have to take responsibility if they put clients up in insanitary hotels. (They'll be insured for it.)

[jomifl]

I blame the beer ..

[Peter Pedant]

of from my nd of the woods - cheshire

typical ambulance chasers:

or should that be ..... perseguidor de ambulancias ?

[jno]

lots of posh tour operators in Cheshire, Peter, or used to be. The ones least likely to put you up in Hotella Salmonella. though.

[TWR]

Wolf, even if I had, I don't need the likes of these people to fight my case, providing the claimant has the right & correct medical information he / she can do the claim themselves not relying on these rip off Solicitors, I have done so with PPI.

[jno]

TWR, it can be much trickier tryng to prove a given meal at a given restaurant or hotel is what made you sick.

But if it turns out lots of people were sick after eating in the same place, it's much easier. That's why companies like this try to aggregate cases: they don't just get more clients, they get stronger cases.

[atalanta]

Algeria scenario, last year : 8 travellers and two guides; all group meals eaten in different hotels and restaurants:
day 3, one person goes down with dire rear. Day 4, 3 people. day 5, 3 people.
One traveller and 2 guides are unaffected. One of the affected travellers is ill for one day, two for two days, and the rest for three days.
Nobody can say which food caused the dire rear. Nobody can say if one traveller picked it up and then somehow infected the others. Nobody had any analyses done to see if the cause was the same.
I really don't see how any lawyers could possibly make a case.
However, if all sufferers had the same experience in an all-inclusive resort or on a cruise ship, that would be very different. But sti8ll, coincidence is very far from proof.

[wolf63]

I think that, unless everyone in a hotel etc came down with food poisoning, it would be almost impossible to prove that you were ill and the severity of the illness. Few people would toddle off to a doctor in a foreign country with a bout of diarrhoea.

[jno]

I like the spelling "dire rear".

[wolf63]

jno - it is a word that I will never learn how to spell. I type the word the way that I think it should be and spell-check shows me the correct spelling.

"dire rear" is phonetically accurate and may be a description of what will befall one in a few hours. Japanese belly is my description - from their flag.

[jno]

it was atalanta's spelling, not yours, wolf, but if it isn't correct it certainly ought to be, it is a perfect description.

[zebo]

I think that dire rear is perfect, the word that is to describe the condition! Oddly, I've just had a phone call from somewhere saying that they understood we had taken an all-inclusive holiday in the last two years, don't know what they wanted as I closed the pesky caller. Wish I'd strung them along now.