Here are updates on five lawsuits and trials from the orthopedic industry, as reported by Becker’s during the third quarter of 2025:
- The trial for James Devellis, MD, a Boston-based physician, and former orthopedic surgeon accused of patient abuse, ended in a hung jury.
- Two physicians of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic filed a lawsuit Sept. 12 against Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, its nonprofit foundation and affiliated outpatient surgical facilities.
- Zimmer Biomet filed a lawsuit against Deloitte, accusing the consulting firm of mismanaging a resource planning software system.
- Forty-seven defendants, including orthopedic surgeons with Hempstead, N.Y.-based Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, were named in a racketeering lawsuit filed in the New York Eastern District Court in Brooklyn.
- Orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel Hostin, MD, settled with American Transit Insurance Co. and was dropped from a $450 million medical fraud lawsuit.
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