Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jason Peters has agreed to settle a lawsuit for nearly $2 million against the manufacturer of a crutch-like device that broke while he was using it, causing him further injury and time away from the team.
Peters sued Roll-A-Bout Corp. last year under a strict liability theory, arguing the company's scooter-like crutch device broke three weeks after Peters had surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon. Roll-A-Bout was recently purchased by another company and no longer operates as its own entity. The $1.93 million settlement represents the limits of Roll-A-Bout's insurance coverage, according to Peters' attorneys, Michael Trunk and Jason Pearlman of Kline & Specter.
