Let’s put it this way: Pat Haden has had better fortnights.
With Steve Sarkisian‘s issues now in the rear-view mirror, there’s another issue popping up for the USC football program. Former defensive end Morgan Breslin has brought a lawsuit against his former school, claiming the school led him astray in choosing disability insurance.
A second team All-Pac-12 performer as a junior in 2012, Breslin’s senior season ended after undergoing surgery to fix a nagging hip injury in November of 2013. He had a cup of coffee with the San Francisco 49ers in 2014, but in effect his playing career ended with that surgery.
Before his senior season, however, Breslin worked with USC on purchasing a disability insurance program through AmTrust at Lloyd’s, a process in which he says was led by a university-appointed insurance broker.
With his career now over, Breslin went to collect on his policy, only AmTrust has denied the claim and has filed paperwork in an effort to declare his policy void. So now Breslin is suing USC for what he says was inadequate coverage.
“USC controls all communications between insurers offering athletic insurance policies and the student athlete who will buy the policy,” the suit states, via the Los Angeles Daily News. “This is done through USC’s Compliance Department and the training and medical staff.”
Breslin is in search of “unspecified damages.”
