Painter sues Bill Belichick for nearly $300,000, alleges he was injured while working at coach’s Nantucket home
A painter who alleges he was injured while working at a Nantucket home owned by Bill Belichick is suing the former Patriots coach for nearly $300,000, records show.
Andrew Jackson filed a civil lawsuit in Nantucket Superior Court against a Massachusetts corporation, Forty Five Fair Street LLC, that lists Belichick as the manager, according to court records.
In court papers, Jackson alleges he was working on the premises of the downtown home in June 2024 when he slipped on plastic sheeting and injured his right ankle.
“At the direction of the homeowner, general contractor, and/or agents acting on their behalf, construction practices created an unsafe work area for workers at the premises,” the lawsuit alleges. The Nantucket Current previously reported the lawsuit.
Jackson, who according to court papers lives in Mississippi, said the unsafe conditions included “the placement, use, and/or maintenance of plastic sheeting or coverings.”
“As a direct result of said dangerous and unsafe conditions, [Jackson] slipped and fell while at the premises,” the lawsuit alleged.
Jackson said the injury has cost him about $300,000 in lost wages and medical bills.
After 24 years with the Patriots, Belichick took over as head coach at the University of North Carolina. The Tar Heels notched just four wins last year, his first season.
No one has responded to the civil lawsuit on behalf of the LLC or Belichick as of Monday. Belichick could not immediately be reached for comment.
Belichick paid $4.8 million for the single-family home, the Globe reported in May 2024.
Belichick typically spends the offseason at his compound in Sconset, on the eastern shore of the island. It’s where he was hunkered down during the 2020 NFL draft, when everyone had to work remotely because of the pandemic.
Belichick once said that throughout all his jobs in the NFL — which included stints in Detroit, Denver, New York, and Cleveland — Nantucket was the place he always came back to.
“[A]t the end of every one of those years I was here,” Belichick said in a 2017 interview with N Magazine. “Nantucket has always been a constant.”
Information from previous Globe coverage was used in this account.
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