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Injured on your travels?

With all the excitement of a holiday nobody likes to think about what could happen if they’re not careful, especially when they’re in a foreign country. Most of us might even think for a second before ticking the holiday insurance box when we’re booking our holiday to start with, though the good news is that more and more operators are making it necessary to have proper insurance before they go.

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Holiday insurance can help you with your medical bills while you’re in a foreign hospital, but what about when you get home? If you’re seriously hurt you might not be able to work, and when you’re taking some time off to go on holiday in the first place that can be a real problem. The good news is that with companies like first4lawyers you can make a claim and recoup some of that money you’d otherwise be missing out on.

If you booked your holiday through a UK travel operator, then the chances are good that you can bring a claim against the operator itself rather than against a hotel owner in a country hundreds of miles away. In fact, if you are involved in a car accident abroad in which you suffer an injury, you can claim at home, even if the foreign driver isn’t insured.No win no fee gives you all the information you need to make sure that you don’t run into any problems while on holiday that are going to do any lasting damage to your finances when you get home, and that’s something that should really help you relax when you’re on the beach.