Award-Winning Hotel, Resort, & Vacation Accident Lawyers Help Injury Victims Nationwide

The attorneys at Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, P.A. have extensive knowledge and experience handling hotel, vacation, and resort accident claims. Our 16 full-time award-winning personal injury attorneys are seasoned veterans in maritime injury, cruise ship, and resort accident claims. Four of our attorneys have been named to “Best Lawyers” ® and our firm has been selected to “Best Law Firms” ® every year since 2016 by US News & World Report.

Our team has represented more than 4,000 clients since we opened our doors in 1971 and combined we have more than 250 years of litigation experience. We have successfully recovered $500 million and counting for our clients in trial verdicts and settlements over the last 50 years, and are available to help victims in hotel injury cases across the country easily at any one of our eight strategically placed office locations across the U.S. As well, Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, P.A. takes great pride in celebrating the achievements of Charles Lipcon (2020) and Jason R. Margulies (2025), who were both named “Lawyer of the Year” in Admiralty and Maritime Law for Miami, a rare lifetime achievement held by two members of our firm.

The hospitality industry presents significant safety challenges for both workers and guests. According to research published by the National Institute of Health, hotel workers experience an overall injury rate of 5.2 injuries per 100 worker-years, with housekeepers facing the highest risk at 7.9 injuries per 100 worker-years. These statistics underscore the importance of proper safety protocols and demonstrate why experienced legal representation is essential when accidents occur due to hotel negligence.

When you or someone you love is critically injured or killed in a resort, hotel, or vacation accident, you need legal representation you can rely on. Our success rate is unmatched, with founder Charles Lipcon paving the way for how the United States handles personal injury and maritime cases in his representation of various landmark lawsuits. Several of our attorneys appear often as expert witnesses regarding personal injury and maritime laws on national talk shows and news programs. We are confident that our skills, experience, and legal knowledge can help you secure a favorable outcome in your case involving a hotel’s negligence.

Read on to learn more about how a hotel injury attorney from our team can help you recover the compensation you deserve and hold liable parties accountable for their negligence. Contact us for a 100% free consultation so we can start working on your claim strategy as soon as today.

We Made Our Name Suing Cruise Lines – Hotel & Resort Accidents Are Surprisingly Similar

At Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, P.A., we’re famous for the results we’ve achieved over the past 50 years primarily for cruise line injury lawsuits, but that’s not all we do. Foreign hotel and resort lawsuits are quite similar to cruise ship lawsuits in many ways. If you think about it, a cruise ship is much like a gigantic floating hotel. There are plenty of activities to partake in, thousands of strangers to mingle with, and the commensurate levels of crime and mischief that go along with a population the size of a small city.

Decades of Experience in Holding Negligent Hotels Accountable

We understand the challenges that come with dealing with hotel injuries and the importance of having a knowledgeable hotel injury attorney by your side. Our team has decades of experience handling personal injury cases, especially those involving hotel injury cases where the impact of a hotel’s negligence can be significant.

Lawsuits Against Foreign Resorts

If you’ve been injured in an incident at a resort in a foreign country, your case may be challenging and present many complications.

Hotel and Resort Cases We Handle

• Rape and Sexual Assault
• Drownings
• Parasailing Accidents
• Excursions
• Boating, Yacht, Sailing, and Jet Ski Accidents
• Wrongful Death
• Slip and Fall & Trip and Fall Accidents

Likewise, many resorts have a range of hazards that can cause trip and fall hotel accidents, even in your hotel room. Rugs that are not flat against the floor or various obstacles in hallways or stairwells may cause guests to trip and fall, potentially leading to serious injury.

If the staff at a hotel or resort allows obstacles or dangerous conditions such as bunched-up rugs in walking areas that should be safe and free of hazards that may cause a guest to trip and fall, the hotel or resort may be liable for resultant injuries.

Other risks include improper lighting, food poisoning, broken, faulty stairways, assaults or robberies due to inadequate security, and even elevator accidents, all of which your hotel accident lawyer will fight to ensure that the property owner is held liable for.

Pre-Ride Release and Waiver Forms

In some cases, guests are asked or required to sign a waiver releasing the hotel, resort, or activity operators from liability for common accidents caused on their property. You may think this means that if you signed something similar, you have given up your right to sue in case of an accident, but luckily, that is not necessarily the case.

Waivers and releases may impose some restrictions on what you can sue for, but you are still permitted to sue a company for negligence even after signing a waiver. A liability clause does not protect a company from all lawsuits or enable it to operate with impunity. Companies still must follow the same laws that everyone else is subject to and make an effort to keep guests on their property reasonably safe. Hotel negligence is not necessarily excusable because of a release.

The company uses forms such as these because they want you to think that signing away your rights via a waiver prohibits you from suing them if you suffer an injury, but such clauses are not universally enforceable. Even if you’ve signed a waiver before participating in a potentially dangerous activity, the company may still be held liable for your injuries if they acted negligently and did not take reasonable steps to protect your safety and prevent injury.Working with a liability lawyer is the best way to make sense of these documents and determine how you can seek the compensation you rightfully deserve.

Hotels and Resorts that We’ve Successfully Sued

1. Sandals

   Our lawyers have brought a class action lawsuit against Sandals Resorts, alleging that the company charged customers what was supposed to be a sales tax but was in fact never remitted to the government and was kept by Sandals as an additional profit, thus overcharging the customers fraudulently.

2. Atlantis

   We’ve sued the Atlantis resort at Paradise Island, Bahamas for negligence relating to hygienic practices after a guest was given a room infested with bed bugs and suffered hundreds of bites.

3. Marriott

   We’ve sued the Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico after a client was injured in a parasailing accident due to the resort’s negligence.

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What You Should Do if You’ve Been Injured or Assaulted at a Hotel or Resort In Miami, in the US, or Internationally

If you’ve been the victim of an accident at a hotel or resort, you need to know the proper steps to take to protect your health, safety, and rights.

Frequently Asked Questions About Hotel & Resort Accidents

Our International Hotel, Resort, and Accident Attorneys Help Injury Victims Demand the Compensation They Deserve

Our team of hotel, resort, and accident attorneys at Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, P.A. have more than 250 years of experience advocating for victim’s rights. Several of our attorneys have been named to “Best Lawyers” ® in America and the firm has been recognized as one of the “Best Law Firms” ® for almost 10 years by US News & World Report.

When you or someone you love has suffered devastating or fatal injuries in a resort or hotel accident, you need the legal advocacy of a respected personal injury firm. Our team is ready to help you access the financial compensation you deserve. Contact us immediately through our secured contact form or call our office at 888-311-9929 to schedule your free, no-obligation consultation and connect with an experienced and knowledgeable accident lawyer.