$250,000 Settlement for Injury from Defective Tanning Booth

$250,000 awarded to a Nassau County woman who became claustrophobic in a stand-up tanning booth and lacerated her finger on razor sharp edges on the metal door as she attempted to escape, requiring surgery to relieve a nerve compression in her arm. We argued that the booth had a poor design in that a user, wearing protective goggles would not be able to easily exit the booth and would not anticipate sharp metal edges, which was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s laceration.