Hudgell Solicitors

Travel: Personal Injury

Senior Litigation Executive

Anne has spent more than 30 years working in holiday injury and illness claims and has experience of representing both claimants and defendant holiday operators.

She has led cases involving injuries as a result of coaches being in road traffic accidents abroad, and injuries being suffered on planes and cruise ships.

Anne has also been successful in group action claims where illnesses have been caused as a result of poor hygiene or food standards at all-inclusive hotels and on cruises.

At a previous legal firm, Anne established a travel litigation department, growing the team from a starting point to a successful part of the business.

During her career Anne has achieved settlements for people who have suffered dreadful consequences as a result of food poisoning contracted while on holiday and as a result of other bacterial infections such as Legionnaires’s disease.

In a successful recent case her client was scalded by hot coffee while returning home on a Virgin Atlantic flight. The cause was turbulence, but as my client was in no way to blame he was awarded compensation as he was covered under The Montreal Convention, a pro-consumer law which protects people injured in an accident during international air travel.

In another case, a mother taking children to enjoy the evening’s entertainment at their holiday hotel suffered a serious ankle injury after she fell on a poorly lit footpath leaving her needing a wheelchair and crutches for the rest of the trip. She contacted several solicitors for legal advice who advised the case wasn’t strong enough, but Anne was sure her claim would be successful and she was eventually awarded compensation.

Anne also successfully represented a woman who was taken so severely ill after returning home from holiday in India that she needed hospital treatment. She was awarded £6,750 damages from TUI after being diagnosed with pneumonia and Legionnaires’ disease.