Fla. Jury Awards Soccer PlayerTargeted by Rival Coach $277,000
A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has awarded $277,000 to a former high school soccer player who was injured in 1992 after a rival coach told his players to "waste him."
The award may be the first of its kind in which a coach's words from the sidelines in the heat of competition made him legally responsible for a player's behavior, according to lawyers on both sides of the case.
Lawyers for the Broward County school board, which is liable for 80 percent of the award, or $242,000, expect to be back in court later this month to ask that the verdict be set aside or that a...
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