Woman sues after getting stuck in bathtub for 30 hours

An Illinois woman has sued a company that manufactured the bathtub she became "wedged" in for more than 30 hours.

"That was the lousiest $12,000 I ever put out," Anna Cullen said. "I ended up in the hospital for four days, and then in a nursing home for three months." Cullen, who lives in western Illinois, filed suit against Premier Care in Bathing Monday nearly a year after the September 2010 incident.



"As the tub was filling with water, she fell and became wedged in the front of the tub," the lawsuit states. When she then tried to pull the chain connected to the drain stopper, it broke. It was her second time using the newly-installed tub.

A testimonial for one of Premier Care's walk-in tubs features a happy customer declaring, "I could have stayed in there until I became a prune." Unfortunately for Cullen, she stayed in the tub until her daughter found her unconscious with "significant injuries to her skin," according to the suit, which was filed in Cook County and seeks over $50,000.