A few months ago, MiMedx, a Marietta biomedical company that makes skin grafts and other treatments, sued to try to prevent 10 former employees from working for a competitor.
On Wednesday, one of those 10 workers alleged in her own lawsuit that she quit her sales job because MiMedx pressured her to break the law and act unethically.
Lora Whooley, an Arizona resident, alleges that when she was working at MiMedx, she and other employees were under pressure from their superiors to violate federal regulations related to the sale of certain MiMedx products, according to the suit filed in Cobb County Superior Court.
“MiMedx tried to compel its employees to continue selling a product that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined could not lawfully market without prior FDA approval,” said Whooley, in her counterclaim.
Whooley had been for a short time the regional sales director for MiMedx in Arizona. She said in the filing that the company pressured sales staff “to participate in MiMedx’s schemes to bilk Medicare and other government and third-party payers.”
MiMedx uses placental tissue for a variety of products used to treat wounds, burns and orthopedic injuries.
A spokesman for the company said Wednesday that it will not comment on pending litigation.
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