The owner of a New Jersey soccer facility claims in a new
class-action lawsuit the leading U.S. maker of artificial sports fields,
FieldTurf, repeatedly brushed off complaints about his failing field
and told him conditions would improve over time.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for New Jersey, is the third proposed class-action to be brought by customers in the state against FieldTurf in response to an NJ Advance Media investigation that detailed potential fraud.
The investigation found FieldTurf and its executives for years earned
ballooning profits as sales of its popular turf, Duraspine,
skyrocketed, all the while knowing fields were falling apart and would
not live up to marketing and advertising claims.
Despite warnings and candid internal discussions, FieldTurf officials
kept selling Duraspine to cities, towns, school districts and private
companies across the country, and never changed their sales pitches. The
turf was phased out in 2012...
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/01/post_404.html
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