LANCASTER – A request for attorney’s fees has been removed from litigation filed by a local woman who went into a Lancaster nail salon for a manicure last year, and instead allegedly received serious injuries to her right hand due to the salon’s negligence.
Telisia Williams first filed suit in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas on Nov. 28 versus Unique Nails and Tri Tran. All parties are of Lancaster.
“On May 25, 2021, plaintiff was a customer of defendants and received a manicure from one of defendants’ agents, servants, contractors, employees and/or representatives. Subsequent thereto, plaintiff developed pain, redness and swelling in the fingers and thumb of her right hand, thereby suffering severe and permanent injuries,” the suit said.
“The injuries sustained by plaintiff resulted solely from the negligence and carelessness of the defendants and was due in no manner whatsoever to an act or failure to act on the part of plaintiff.”
The suit added the defendants failed to properly and appropriately perform a manicure to the plaintiff’s right hand and failed to ensure that the salon’s technician used proper equipment and proper protocols to perform the manicure.
“As a direct and proximate result of the negligence and carelessness of the defendants, plaintiff sustained severe and debilitating personal injuries, including but not limited to: Paronychia of the right middle finger and right thumb, an abscess around the right middle finger, a subungual hematoma of one finger on the right hand, a partial loss of the nail plate on the right middle finger, an ill-defined edema and hyper-enhancement of the nail bed of the long finger, whereby plaintiff has suffered, is suffering and will for an indefinite time into the future suffer, all to plaintiff’s great detriment and loss,” the suit stated.
UPDATE
According to a Jan. 3 stipulation, it was agreed the defendant parties would be renamed and that the plaintiff would no longer seek attorney’s fees in this case.
“It is hereby agreed by and between counsel for the undersigned parties, that the proper party defendant shall be Tri Tran (doing business as “Unique Nails”). In addition, the plaintiff’s request for attorney’s fees as found in the body of the complaint shall be dismissed with prejudice. This stipulation may be signed in sub-parts and shall have the same effect as an order of Court,” the stipulation read.
For a count of negligence, the plaintiff is seeking damages not exceeding $50,000, plus interest and costs.
The plaintiff is represented by Michael T. van der Veen of van der Veen Hartshorn & Levin, in Philadelphia.
The defendant is represented by Lisa M. DiBernardo and Harrison N. Hagelgans of BBC Law, in Lancaster.
Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas case CI-22-07347
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nick.malfitano@therecordinc.com