Wisconsin: The Middleton-Cross Plains
School District has filed a federal lawsuit against the maker of the
artificial playing surface at its football and soccer stadium, saying
the maker hasn’t honored its warranty for the prematurely aging surface,
despite knowing that it was made using defective material.
According
to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Madison, the
district alleges that FieldTurf USA, a leading maker of artificial
athletic playing surfaces used in high school, college and professional
stadiums, has refused to replace the synthetic field on the district’s
football and soccer field at Middleton’s Breitenbach Stadium, which cost
the district $306,428 to install in 2007.
The
district says that in 2014, FieldTurf settled a lawsuit against the
manufacturer of the fiber that is used to make the playing surface for
what is believed to be “tens of millions dollars,” to account for future
claims of untimely wear from customers who bought the artificial turf.
“This case is one of those ‘future claims,’” the district’s lawsuit states...
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