€17,500 award for woman badly burned after sunbed session

A woman who suffered first degree burns to 80% of her body during a sunbed session has been awarded €17,500 damages against a Dublin tanning salon.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane heard in the Circuit Civil Court that Laura Goodwin, aged 32, of Cul Ronain Park, Ballivor, as a first-time user of a sunbed, had not been given adequate guidance in relation to the safe usage of the sunbed.

The civil servant sued Aneta Nowak and Pawel Koldras, who trade as Annette Salon Fryzierski, Castle Gate, Lord Edward St, Dublin, on the grounds they had been negligent in allowing her to use the bed for an unsafe length of time and at an unsafe power setting.