Thursday 30 June 2022 10:27 AM Holidaymaker sues TUI for £112,620 after she slipped and shattered ankle in ... trends now
A holidaymaker has sued TUI for £112,620 after she slipped in a puddle at the juice bar at a four-star Spanish hotel resort and shattered her ankle.
Karen Carey, 64, broke her right ankle when she fell over at the luxury H10 Taburiente Playa Hotel in Tenerife six years ago as she was going down to have her breakfast.
The woman, from Walthamstow, East London, was with her husband Peter when the incident happened - but holiday giant TUI say her accident was her own fault because she went down to breakfast barefoot.
Central London County Court heard that the fracture had a catastrophic effect on her life and career, plaguing her with chronic pain and drastically limiting her mobility.
Karen Carey, 64, shattered her ankle at the four-star hotel in Tenerife six years ago as she was going down to have her breakfast. Mrs Carey is pictured outside Central London County Court
The British woman was holidaying at the luxury H10 Taburiente Playa Hotel in Tenerife (pictured) when the incident happened in January 2016
The couple had booked a seven-day package at the four-star beachside hotel which boasts spectacular views, four swimming pools and several restaurants.
The fall came on the fifth morning of their week-long winter dream holiday - and led to an ambulance rushing her off to hospital in La Palma as well as repeat bouts of surgery once she was back in the UK.
Mrs Carey is now suing holiday giants TUI Ltd for £112,620 over the January 2016 accident, which her lawyers have blamed on a puddle of juice or water from a cava cooler bucket which cleaners failed to mop up.
But TUI's legal team are denying all liability.
They dispute that any liquid had been spilled on the
