A wedding guest has been ordered to pay travel firm TUI £10,000 after he falsely claimed the food and drink at a Mexican all-inclusive resort made him ill.
Jadeep Singh, 34, from Salford, stayed at the Beach Palace in Cancun for a wedding and appeared to have a good time.
He posted wedding selfies marking his stay in November 2015, but said he was ill for three weeks after he returned. Singh also tried to claim that 12 other guests were made ill by the food, but nobody else put in a claim with TUI. When his claim went to court, a Manchester county court judge didn’t believe him, and ordered him to pay £10,000.
One in five Brits, around 9.5 million people, have been approached about making a compensation claim for holiday sickness, according to a recent survey. Travel trade organisation Abta, which commissioned the poll, warned that claims management firms are cold calling millions of people, urging them to make false claims.
