A few days ago when I was on a flight to NYC from Mobay, there was a woman in a wheelchair, with a cast on one leg and a wrap on the second. Seemed friendly enough. Anyway, they were talking about their trip and how it was cut short by 4 days because they had to come home due to an injury. They were talking to another couple and she looked great and in good spirits (it had just happened the day before).
I then heard her say she broke her one leg and sprained her other ankle. She slipped and fell on the floor at her hotel, which was Secrets. She was annoyed because the hotel implied or asked what she was drinking (to which she sharply replied Diet Coke). She said how they were trying to say she was drinking which is why she answered Diet Coke (who thinks like that when you are injured??).She then went on to complain/talk about how much she has to do to get doctor appointments now, etc, which is understandable.
Another thing she mentioned was how 'pi**ed off' she was and kept repeating it over and over that all they did was send a security guard and a private taxi to take her to Mobay Hope (thank God can you imagine otherwise?) That the Secrets was trying to distance themselves from the event or accept any blame. They did nothing more nor pay for the visit. I mean really what did she expect them to do-close the hotel?
Then she and the people she was talking to continued the conversation, and the other woman implied that she should get some compensation and the injured woman retorted something along the lines of that yes now that she is all confined to her chair for a while, that they have definitely not heard the last of her and that she is going to sue them.
I was just disgusted. Why is the US such a sue-happy society? When did a pure accident become something more? Not only do they take this attitude at home, but bring it out of the country.