PLANO (CBS 11 NEWS) - A Dallas woman has filed suit
against LA Fitness for comments and exercises her trainers made her do. She
says they were sexually suggestive.
You would think the suit filed would be for sexual
harassment. But no, Chase Laws, the attorney who filed it, said that would be
for the workplace.
Instead, he filed a suit for Deceptive Trade
Practices and Negligence. He reasons, as a consumer, the woman signed a
contract. She lived up to her end of the bargain. LA Fitness didn’t live up to
theirs by providing a safe workout environment.
Jaimie Johnson went to LA Fitness in Plano to get
fit. But she says two personal trainers talked to her in ways that are unfit
for anyone.
She says, she questioned one trainer when he asked
her to do “strange exercises.”
“He would answer bluntly, ‘So, I can see your chest
move while you do it. And, not in an exercising kind of way. More in a sexual
way,” Johnson said.
But she said nothing. She just stopped going only to
return for a new trainer.
But the new trainer also made sexually suggestive
comments, even sending her a vulgar text. Her five-year-old son had the phone
when it came in.
“That’s extremely inappropriate and I felt
embarrassed and ashamed and violated,” she said.
That was back in June. She hasn’t been back since.
When she contacted LA Fitness corporate offices and complained, they offered her $400. Johnson was paying $200 a month and she
had signed a two year contract.
Her next move was to contact Chase Laws, an
attorney.
“This was probably just an effort to move this along
like perhaps any other claim that may come through their door,” Laws said.
He filed a suit saying Jamie Johnson had suffered
traumatic emotional distress and couldn’t function through her daily
activities. And, because of that, her husband suffered too.
Johnson said she tried going back to a gym regularly
but hasn’t been able to.
She says she wants proper compensation, though her
attorney said they wouldn’t discuss what that would be.
She also wants to send a message.
“I would like to have these guys realize they can’t
treat women this way,” she said.
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