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St. Louis could still be on the hook for Bush's 2015 injury

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former NFL them." whom she called "the
running back Reggie Bush Two weeks after Bush tore football experts," controlled
alleges that dangerous the lateral meniscus of the Dome during home
conditions at a St. Louis his left knee, the Dome games, not her clients. She
stadium led to a season- covered the concrete said Bush's injury happened
ending injury in a case that surface with rubber "during the normal course
could leave the city on the padding, according to of a football game."
hook for damages, even his suit. Bush's fall followed Rams lawyer Daniel
though the Rams are long a similar incident at the Allmayer said the team
gone. Dome on Oct. 25, 2015, in took steps to ensure the
Defendants in the civil trial, which Cleveland Browns safety of players, including
which began Tuesday, quarterback Josh McCown installing carpet runners in
include two public entities slid into a wall, injuring his the tunnels between the
— the St. Louis Regional shoulder. locker rooms and turf field.
Convention and Sports After sitting out the rest Allmayer said that after Bush
Complex Authority and the of the 2015 season, Bush got hurt, Rams Operations
St. Louis Convention and signed with Buffalo for the Director Bruce Warwick
Visitors Commission — as following season, saying at immediately contacted
well as the Rams, the St. the time that his surgically the St. Louis Conventions
Louis Post-Dispatch reports. repaired knee was 100 and Visitors Commission
Bush was playing for the In this Tuesday, June 5, 2018, photo, former NFL running back percent. But his attorney about covering the
Reggie Bush leaves the Civil Courts building with his legal team
San Francisco 49ers in in St. Louis. told jurors that the knee exposed concrete.
November 2015 when he Associated Press injury prevented Bush from "Mr. Warwick had to get
slipped and fell in a game getting a more lucrative the authority of the CVC
after being pushed out behind the 49ers bench. The an ice rink," Bush's lawyer deal as a free agent. if he wanted to change it
of bounds at the former suit says the area had been Tim Cronin told jurors in Debbie Champion, who or move things because it
Edward Jones Dome, nicknamed the "concrete opening statements as represents the Regional was their stadium — their
now called the Dome at ring of death." The Rams he played video of the Convention and Sports area," Allmayer said.
America's Center. Bush's moved to Los Angeles the injury. "Whatever risks a Complex Authority and Bush's suit doesn't put a
cleats apparently slipped following season. football player assumes, the St. Louis Convention price on the injury but says
on a concrete surface "You can see, it's like all of concrete 11 yards outside and Visitors Commission, he seeks at least $25,000 in
about 11 yards (10 meters) a sudden he's running on the sidelines is not one of told jurors that the Rams, damages.q