Hotel counter suing for false sickness claim

soolin · 28 May 2017 at 9:47AM

OK it is the Daily Mail but it is quite interesting due to the number of newbies in the past asking about the cash for compo companies now spamming us promising money for past holidays where we may have been unwell:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4548686/Hotel-sues-fake-holiday-bug-pair-170-000.html

gardner1 · 28 May 2017 at 9:55AM

Good on the hotel

Alan_Bowen · 28 May 2017 at 1:32PM

Very strange case all round. If it was a package holiday and it was booked through Thomsons so it almost certainly was, then the claim should have been against the operator, not the hotel itself. Also very difficult to see any claim of defamation by the hotel against the customers since no one knew anything about the complaint until now. Looking at Tripadvisor, the reviews are nearly all excellent or good.

Thomsons did announce last Monday that they would defend every case that they thought was fraudulent and as operators of First Choice who only sell all inclusive holidays they may be at the front line of complaints but defending a case costs tens of thousands of pounds and many smaller operators, or perhaps their insurers would rather settle as it costs less and this is what the false claims handlers rely on

Pollycat · 28 May 2017 at 2:26PM

I too wonder at the history of the claim.
Were they really ill? The DM article implies not.
If they were I'll, did they say anything to the rep in resort?
Did they try to claim from Thomson's and were knocked back?

If it turns out that they just saw a way to make a few £k, then it's a case of the biter bit. :T
Well done that hotel.
According to the DM, the couple now want to drop the case - they stand to lose their home.
That will teach them not to deal with ambulance-chasing scumbag companies with a false claim.
No sympathy whatsoever for them if the article is true.

AlexMac · 28 May 2017 at 6:27PM

Us 1940's boomer babies have cast iron guts, so we generally never get ill, but my wife's only-ever tummy bug happened after she ate an unwashed apple 20 years ago in Aracena near the Spanish Portugese border.

Who do I sue?

soolin · 28 May 2017 at 6:58PM

Pollycat wrote: »

I too wonder at the history of the claim.
Were they really ill? The DM article implies not.
If they were I'll, did they say anything to the rep in resort?
Did they try to claim from Thomson's and were knocked back?

If it turns out that they just saw a way to make a few £k, then it's a case of the biter bit. :T
Well done that hotel.
According to the DM, the couple now want to drop the case - they stand to lose their home.
That will teach them not to deal with ambulance-chasing scumbag companies with a false claim.
No sympathy whatsoever for them if the article is true.

Actually the 'stand to lose their house' claim appears to be a False statement, the remedy is there in the article itself. It says if they want to close their claim they merely have to pay the solicitor off, I would have thought that a cheaper option rather than attempt to defend themselves .

molerat · 28 May 2017 at 7:21PM

I do hope the SRA will be looking at the solicitors as, quoting the couple, "I was horrified when I saw the court papers which listed all these negative things we were supposed to have said about the hotel. We never said any of those things. I rang the solicitor and she told me not to worry about it."

Gloomendoom · 28 May 2017 at 7:31PM

AlexMac wrote: »

Us 1940's boomer babies have cast iron guts, so we generally never get ill, but my wife's only-ever tummy bug happened after she ate an unwashed apple 20 years ago in Aracena near the Spanish Portugese border.

Who do I sue?

I lost two days of a holiday in the Algarve with food poisoning. I ended up in hospital with food poisoning during a stay in Malta (Hotel Mediterranee, Bugibba).

It never occured to me to sue. I just decided that it was going to have to be self catering if I wanted to visit southern Europe.

Not had food poisoning since.

WAYT · 28 May 2017 at 11:01PM

soolin wrote: »

Actually the 'stand to lose their house' claim appears to be a False statement, the remedy is there in the article itself. It says if they want to close their claim they merely have to pay the solicitor off, I would have thought that a cheaper option rather than attempt to defend themselves .

Erm no. That was to close their claim against the hotel. Has no effect on the counter claim against them

[Deleted User] · 29 May 2017 at 8:10AM

The photo of the husband wearing two large gold earrings rather makes up my mind on the character of these claimants.
I know it shouldn't but it does.
Just saying.:D

Pollycat · 29 May 2017 at 8:30AM

soolin wrote: »

OK it is the Daily Mail but it is quite interesting due to the number of newbies in the past asking about the cash for compo companies now spamming us promising money for past holidays where we may have been unwell:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4548686/Hotel-sues-fake-holiday-bug-pair-170-000.html

Here's one thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5623256

The OP of this thread ^^^^ asks about 'free money'.

In the case of the couple in the DM article, I bet they wish they'd never heard from this firm of solicitors.

The holiday they're claiming for was in October 2013.

Sheer greed on their part.

Hotel counter suing for false sickness claim

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