has sued Belichick<\/a> for injuries suffered while painting at Belichick\u2019s home in July 2024.<\/p>\nAndrew Jackson contends that Belichick\u2019s $5 million property on Nantucket had improperly maintained plastic sheeting or coverings to protect the floor and furniture, which created a \u201cdangerous and unsafe\u201d work environment.<\/p>\n
From the lawsuit, which reportedly seeks nearly $300,000 in compensation: \u201cDefendant owed Plaintiff a duty to use reasonable care to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition, to inspect for hazards, to warn of dangers of which it knew or should have known, and to coordinate the site in a reasonably safe manner for lawful workers present there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jackson claims he fell at the work site, suffering a severe ankle injury. Jackson allegedly suffered pain, disability, lost wages, and medical expenses.<\/p>\n
He contends that he has incurred $61,000 in hospital expenses, $4,600 in doctors\u2019 visits and $2,000 in physical-therapy bills. Jackson also alleges that he has lost $167,828.25 in wages, and that he will lose another $50,000.<\/p>\n
The total financial losses specified by Jackson total $285,436.39.<\/p>\n
If Jackson can prove Belichick was responsible for the injury, and if the financial harm can be established to the satisfaction of a judge and jury, Jackson would also be eligible for an award of general damages based on his pain. That would be over and above the financial consequences \u2014 and it could push the final award well north of $300,000.<\/p>\n
Belichick presumably has insurance that will cover the case. Still, he\u2019ll be expected to cooperate with the litigation, unless and until a settlement is reached. Depending on the limits of Belichick\u2019s liability coverage (and someone with his assets would be crazy not to have an umbrella policy worth at least $10 million), he\u2019ll possibly face no specific financial losses.<\/p>\n
Unless, of course, the insurance companies try to claim that all or part of the incident isn\u2019t covered. Which is the first question most insurance companies ask when faced with the prospect of paying out money to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick\u2019s second offseason as head football coach at North Carolina has yet to include the storm of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-706760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116352760343720417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}