{"id":4498,"date":"2025-03-04T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/orthofix-fired-execs-for-private-texts-theyre-fighting-back-with-a-vengeance\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:40:45","slug":"orthofix-fired-execs-for-private-texts-theyre-fighting-back-with-a-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/orthofix-fired-execs-for-private-texts-theyre-fighting-back-with-a-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthofix Fired Execs for Private Texts. They&#8217;re Fighting Back With a Vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Orthofix&#8217;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 &#8220;offensive conduct&#8221; was as mysterious as it was extraordinary for a publicly traded company. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>But now Orthofix&#8217;s former board chair, Catherine Burzik, has filed court papers that seek to publicly justify why the trio got the ax\u2014dozens of &#8220;graphically inappropriate&#8221; text messages the executives sent to one another that she says were so abhorrent that the Lewisville, Texas-based company &#8220;had no choice but to remove the three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthofix&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[354,2070,1601,4915,1353,1546,4916,4917],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-execs","tag-fighting","tag-fired","tag-orthofix","tag-private","tag-texts","tag-theyre","tag-vengeance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}