Orthofix’s simultaneous sacking of its chief legal officer, chief financial officer and CEO 18 months ago for what the maker of orthopedic medical devices described at the time only as “offensive conduct” was as mysterious as it was extraordinary for a publicly traded company.
But now Orthofix’s former board chair, Catherine Burzik, has filed court papers that seek to publicly justify why the trio got the ax—dozens of “graphically inappropriate” text messages the executives sent to one another that she says were so abhorrent that the Lewisville, Texas-based company “had no choice but to remove the three.”