Tonight's New England Revolution home soccer match will proceed, despite ongoing differences between Gillette Stadium owner the Kraft Group and the town of Foxboro over event liability insurance.
Foxboro town counsel Dick Gelerman said the town would allow the game to be played for public safety issues, but it continues to dispute whether the Kraft Group is in compliance with new event license conditions.
"I've notified them that we do not think they are," Gelerman said. "They disagree, but we're not going to stop the event. We think doing so would be harmful to public safety. People won't get the notice. It's not safe to try and turn away a crowd."
At issue is an increase in the town's deductible for liability insurance from claims stemming from games and other events at Gillette Stadium, which jumped from $7,500 per claim to $50,000 per claim as of June 30. In March, the town imposed a new event license condition for Gillette events that requires the Kraft Group to insure the town "in the form satisfactory to us," according to Gelerman.
With no agreement reached Wednesday, the town had asked the Kraft Group to meet one of two conditions by 5 p.m. yesterday for the event license to be issued: Cover the $42,500 per-claim difference or increase its own liability insurance with the hope that the town's insurer would lower its deductible back to $7,500.
Neither condition was met, but the town decided to let the game proceed regardless.
"We put (the Kraft Group) on notice that if there is a problem at the game, the liability is theirs," Gelerman said, noting the town hopes to continue to work with the Kraft Group to resolve the issue. "We're going to try to solve this before the next event."
Spokesman Stacey James said the Kraft Group believes it's satisfied all possible license conditions and has the appropriate insurance to host the game.
The issue that remains unresolved is a "town insurance matter" which the Kraft Group has worked diligently to help the town resolve, providing multiple alternatives for its consideration, James said.
"Unfortunately, there are some who are demanding us to do more than we are allowed to do under the laws of the Commonwealth," James said. "Rather than working together constructively to find ways to insure the town, some choose to be obstructionists by creating unnecessary obstacles in the process. We will continue to work with responsible town leaders to properly address public safety, insurance and licensing issues."
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