The Associated Press reported Thursday that former Cleveland Browns center LeCharles Bentley sued the team over a career-ending staph infection. Bentley is seeking at least $25,000 in damages for alleged fraud and negligent misrepresentation, but he could seek more money in court.
Bentley was one of several Browns players who battled staph infections. Wide receiver Joe Jurevicius settled a similar lawsuit against the Browns in June.
“They told him their facility was the best,” Bentley’s lawyer Shannon Polk said in the lawsuit. “But they never told him about a host of unsanitary conditions there. And they never told him about the list of others who contracted staph before he chose to rehab there.”
The suit says the Browns’ training facility, which the team called ‘state of the art,’ was a misrepresentation because the Browns failed to sanitize equipment. Bentley suffered extreme sickness while seeing his career ended by two staph infections.OTHER NEWS FROM THE BUSINESS OF SPORT...
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