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Hotels are places associated with positive experiences. Staying in one means a vacation or a visit to friends or family members that live far away. They also offer the ideal weekend getaway for that special celebration. What nobody ever thinks about when staying at one is suffering an accident or getting injured, but that is not an uncommon occurrence. If this has happened to you, you must be wondering whether the hotel’s manager is responsible for your injuries and if you are entitled to obtain compensation. Read onto find out.
What are the most common injuries in hotels?
As a hotel guest, you expect to be able to enjoy a pleasant stay in a clean and safe environment. However, accidents can and do happen anywhere. Here are some of the most common ones:
Food Poisoning
Restaurants and cafeterias at hotels are expected to apply all food safety standards when serving their guests. In some cases, that is not true, particularly when there are unsanitary kitchens, when employees and servers are not habitually washing their hands, or when food is handled improperly. These actions can result in foodborne illnesses.
Swimming Pool Accidents
Many hotels do not have lifeguards by their pools, but they are obligated to post warning signs and rules. Also, they must keep the area clean, keep proper temperatures for the water and use the right chemicals to keep it clean and balanced. Slipping and falling on wet surfaces or accidents such as drownings or near-drownings can happen in an instant.
Broken Furniture
Furniture in hotels gets used and overused. Hotels may try to save money by doing repairs in-house when pieces of furniture should have been replaced. Sitting on old furniture may cause it to break and injure a guest.
Slip and Fall Accidents
When there are slippery surfaces, changes in flooring types, dark stairwells, or any other hazards present on hotel floors, guests can slip and fall, injuring themselves. These injuries can range from broken bones to brain injuries and many others.
Criminal Activity
Guests must be kept safe at all times when staying in hotels. Should an assault or robbery take place because the hotel failed to provide adequate security or because door locks do not work, the hotel might be found to have been negligent.
Many other types of perils can happen to guests at hotels, from encountering bed bugs in their rooms to getting burned by water in the shower or sinks that are too hot, or in-room appliances such as irons, hairdryers, or coffeemakers that are defective. Common areas such as parking lots, lobbies, and meeting or banquet halls should also be reasonably safe areas for guests.
Getting Legal Help for Your Hotel Injuries
When you get hurt and suffer injuries at a hotel, it is up to you and your hotel accident lawyer to put together the necessary evidence to prove that the hotel had a duty of care towards you and that this duty was breached, thus causing your injuries. And that your injuries resulted in identifiable damages to you, which you now want to recover.
While you are pursuing your case legally, it is also important that you take care of your injuries and seek medical help as soon as possible.
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