Sanford Health sues Norberg
Sanford Health here is suing Jon Norberg, claiming that before the health system bought his practice, the orthopedic surgeon should have disclosed he was under investigation for allegedly drugging and raping his wife.By: Forum News Service, The Jamestown Sun
FARGO — Sanford Health here is suing Jon Norberg, claiming that before the health system bought his practice, the orthopedic surgeon should have disclosed he was under investigation for allegedly drugging and raping his wife.
In a civil lawsuit filed Thursday in Cass County District Court, Sanford alleges that Norberg negotiated a deal to sell his business for $276,000 in July 2011. He also got a low-interest loan from Sanford for $374,000 related to his employment agreement, in what’s been referred to in the Norberg’s divorce case as a “retention loan,” or signing bonus.
Sanford wants Norberg to return the $276,000 it paid for his practice and to immediately pay off the $374,000 loan.
About five days before the deal was finalized, the civil complaint states, police executed a search warrant on Norberg’s south Fargo home based on allegations from his wife that he was drugging her with the sedative propofol without her consent, then having sex with her.
Cass County prosecutors later charged Norberg with felony reckless endangerment and gross sexual imposition, but a jury acquitted him in November 2012.
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