Former NFL Star Sues for Gross Negligence, Claims Treatment Facility Caused Toe Infection

Former National Football League star Lawrence Tynes filed a complaint against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the team facility’s owners for gross negligence leading to a staph infection that forced him into early retirement. After kicking for the New York Giants and helping to win two Super Bowls for the team, Tynes signed a $905,000 contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But after a procedural toe-nail surgery, in which he elected to have post-op treatment at the Buccaneers' training facility, he developed a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infection and had...