North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick.
North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick.Adrian Kraus/Associated Press
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 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 home at 45 Fair St. 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.
Jackson, who is a Mississippi resident according to court papers, specified that 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.”
Jackson alleges the injury has cost him about $300,000 lost wages and medical bills. According to court papers, he racked up $67,000 in hospital and medical bills and lost wages totaling $167,000.
After 24 years with the New England 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 afternoon. The Globe has contacted the UNC athletic department and requested a response from the head coach.
The Globe reported in May 2024 that Belichick paid $4.8 million for the single-family home.
The Nantucket Current earlier reported on the lawsuit.
Belichick typically spends the offseason at his compound in Sconset, on the eastern shore of the island. It’s also 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 moves in the NFL — which included stints in Detroit, Denver, New York, and Cleveland and now UNC — 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 earlier Globe reporting was used in this account.
John R. Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. Follow him @JREbosglobe.