Joshi

Filed 6/14/22 Certified for Publication 7/1/22 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

MANSI JOSHI, H048115

(Santa Clara County Plaintiff and Appellant, Super. Ct. No. CV337351)

v.

FITNESS INTERNATIONAL, LLC,

Defendant and Respondent.

On May 1, 2017, Mansi Joshi was injured while using a locker room sauna at City Sports Club, a San Jose exercise facility (the Club) of which she was a member. The Club is owned by Fitness International, LLC (Fitness). Joshi filed a personal injury suit alleging a claim for premises liability based upon Fitness’s failure to maintain the sauna in a safe condition. In her form complaint, she alleged that Fitness was negligent and that it failed to guard against or warn against a dangerous condition of the premises. The specific facility condition she alleged was that an interior light was burned out, and that when she entered the sauna and closed the door, she tripped and fell because the area was dark, resulting in her right arm being severely burned after making contact with the sauna heating element.…