A Lake Oswego medical device company faces a lawsuit for allegedly laying off an employee who raised concerns about physician kickbacks and product defects.
Jon Walburg, the former regional sales director for Biotronik — which has its U.S. headquarters on Jean Road in Lake Oswego — filed the lawsuit in April and the case was transferred from Minnesota District Court (Walburg is a Minnesota resident) to Oregon District Court this month. The lawsuit was first reported by The Lund Report.
Biotronik had already paid a $13 million settlement in 2022 for allegedly providing kickbacks to physicians to prompt them to use their products, along with submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid (the company denied wrongdoing)…