Head Injury on Holiday Compensation Awarded to Pensioner

by | May 8, 2012

A seventy-four year old woman, who sustained head and spine injuries when a sun longer she was sitting on collapsed beneath her, has been awarded 38,000 Euros in head injury on holiday compensation by the Circuit Civil Court in Dublin.

Mary Lee (74) from Navan in County Meath, was on the third day of a week´s break with her husband at the four-star Hotel Galeazzi in Brescia, Italy, when the sun lounger on which she was sitting collapsed; causing Mary to fall onto the concrete pool surround and hit her head on the floor.

As Mary sat up, she complained of feeling dizzy and was immediately taken to the local hospital where she was diagnosed with a soft tissue head injury and damage to her upper spine. Mary was prescribed painkillers but the pains in her head continued and she spent the rest of her holiday in her hotel bed.

When she returned from her holiday, Mary visited her family doctor in Navan, who prescribed stronger painkillers. However the pains in her head and neck continued and prevented Mary from enjoying a full quality of life. After seeking legal advice from an Irish solicitor, Mary made a claim for head injury on holiday compensation against the travel agent through whom she booked her holiday.

At the Circuit Civil Court in Dublin, Judge Jacqueline Linnane heard that the travel agent in question – The Travel Department of Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin – denied their liability and requested that the hotel be introduced as third party defendants. The judge ruled against the travel agency, but stated that they were entitled to be fully indemnified by the hotel.

The judge awarded Mary 38,000 Euros in head injury on holiday compensation plus costs.

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