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Originally Posted by braby
I have an acquaintance who slipped and fell in a hotel in The Dominican.
Can you tell me the limitation period for this type of potential claim and possibly whether the issue of liability would be similar to anglo-american
legal principles
Thank You
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I slipped and fell while staying at the Jaragua hotel a few years ago and the only thing that I did was to tell the manager about it so he could be aware the the floor was wet and some other person could fall. I had a sharp pain on my shoulder for about 3 days and the only thing that went thru my mind was " sh** happens ". It never crossed my mind to sue anybody because it was an accident. What did it get me after I told the manager?, free beers at the bar and friendlier staff members. He did asked me if I intended to sue since, as he put it, " mainly all tourists would sue even if they are not hurt". I told him that I was not going to do such a thing because there was sign there and it was just an accident and that I was not that hurt. I have better thigs to do than to make my vacation miserable, if you had broken a bone, then it would have been a different story. Besides I would have, probably, spent more money in lawyers than the money that I would have gotten, if any. If your friend was not physically hurt, let it go.
Ps: Before anybody tells you in a very nasty way, it's not The Dominican, there is no such country, it's The Dominican Republic, or DR, or RD. There is a Dominica, but it's still not the DR.