Holiday maker brings personal injury claim following beach home accident
A BRITISH tourist is bringing a personal injury claim against an American couple following an accident at their holiday home.
Julian Bruch, from Horsham, West Sussex, says he suffered personal injury after an outdoor chair broke underneath him and he fell on the veranda of Michael and Debra Taylor’s vacation home, on the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas, in 2007.
The suit, which has been filed in Galveston County District Court, says: “As he sat down, the plastic veranda chair broke and collapsed beneath him, causing Mr Bruce to hit the deck and suffer injuries to his hip, pelvis, and back.”
The Taylors are accused of failing to take care of the chair, and “advertising the beach house for rental while knowing that its veranda chairs were in poor condition.”
Bruce alleges that the personal injury he suffered, including anxiety, pain and illness, forced him to seek medical treatment in two continents. He is seeking damages for pain and suffering, mental anguish, and losses of wages and earning capacity.