Rams to pay Bush $12.45M

The Los Angeles Rams have been ordered to pay former NFL running back Reggie Bush $12.45 million in damages on Tuesday for a knee injury he suffered in St. Louis in 2015.

Bush, then playing for the San Francisco 49ers, ran out of bounds on a punt return in a game at the Edward Jones Dome on Nov. 1, 2015, and slipped on some concrete. He suffered a torn lateral meniscus, which ended his season.

“I’m very happy with the verdict,” Bush said “The people spoke and decided very fairly.”

Attorneys for the Rams said they plan to file a motion for a new trial. The team declined comment on the verdict.

Bush filed suit in 2016, alleging that the Rams and the public stadium authorities allowed a “a dangerous condition to exist at the Dome.” Bush’s suit called the area where he fell “a concrete ring of death.”

– Appeal-democrat news services