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[14 Apr 2010 | 8 Comments | ]
Tanning Beds: Lawsuits in Waiting?

Doyice Cotten published this article in Fitness Management several years  ago.  The warnings here are no less true or necessary than they were then. Should you be offering a tanning bed in your club or business?
Norman Welke, an Ohio man, purchased an at-home tanning bed from Wolf Tanning Company of Marietta Georgia in 1993 and has used it regularly until he learned that the bed may have caused a malignant melanoma to form on his chest.  The cancer required a hospital stay and surgical treatment.   In May, 2004, Welke filed …