Persistent lobbying by the lodging industry paid off this week when the U.S. Department of Justice relented and gave hotels until next year to install permanent pool lifts for the disabled. Hotels ...

A looming deadline for hotels to install permanent lifts on all their pools and Jacuzzis to accommodate disabled guests is becoming a growing source of aggravation for many U.S. hoteliers. But to Irv ...

A new ADA accessible handicap lift is ready to be installed at the indoor swimming pool at Sterling Recreation Center. The center is in the process of installing news lifts for the indoor and outoor ...

The first eight reported lawsuits have been filed against eight different hotels over their alleged failure to install pool lifts for the disabled. It didn’t take long. The lawsuits rely on the ...

Robin Taylor, an owner at the Brigantine Aquatic Center whose facility purchased a lift in anticipation of the regulation, said she believes the lift likely will sit unused, not because the center ...

With summer in full swing, the community’s first handicap accessible chair lift has been installed in the Shillington Swimming Pool The pool welcomed the new handicap feature on July 12 courtesy of ...

PAXTON — Plans are under way to make the public swimming pool at Coady Park more handicapped-accessible using the $37,000 left over from a community fundraiser. After the pool had been closed for the ...

Advocates for the disabled are calling for a boycott of certain hotel companies, saying the lodging industry is attempting to undermine equal access to hotels’ swimming pools. A federal regulation ...

The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled. The rules ...