Former Michigan ‘hockey doc’ urologist sued for sex assault of patient

By Kara Berg, kberg@detroitnews.com

A Belleville man is suing a former urologist convicted of sexually assaulting greater than a dozen women and men underneath the guise of medical therapy, marking the primary lawsuit filed towards the ex-doctor.

Dr. Zvi Levran pleaded no contest to twenty-eight counts of legal sexual conduct involving 13 victims and was sentenced in April to 10 to 25 years in jail.

The person noticed Levran as an grownup in March 2022 as a result of urological issues and a fertility-related medical examination. Throughout the appointment, Levran allegedly manipulated the person’s prostate and touched an space that Levran described because the “G-spot” and the world that arouses males, in line with the lawsuit filed Dec. 30 in Oakland County Circuit Court docket.

The lawsuit alleges that Levran’s actions weren’t carried out for any professional medical goal, weren’t medically needed and had been outdoors accepted medical observe.

Levran additionally allegedly observed that the person was unable to get an erection and requested that the person ship him a photograph of himself with one erection, the lawsuit stated. He advised the person that this picture was wanted for fertility analysis and therapy.

In line with the lawsuit, the person despatched Levran the picture as a result of he believed it was needed for his medical care.

“Defendant’s conduct, together with the extended and inappropriate prostate examination, the offensive sexual feedback made to Plaintiff, and the request for sexually express photos, was made for Defendant’s personal sexual gratification and never for any professional medical cause,” the lawsuit stated.

Levran didn’t have an legal professional listed within the lawsuits.

The person didn’t ask for a certain amount of damages, however for an quantity above $25,000.

Levran’s legal expenses associated to the sexual assault of ten former hockey gamers who went to him for therapy in Farmington Hills, some once they had been kids; the sexual assault of a feminine affected person in Bloomfield Hills; taking express photographs of an underage teenage affected person and sending the photographs to himself in Farmington Hills; and soliciting a sexually express video from a 17-year-old affected person in Novi.

Some prosecutors alleged that Levran, who was nicknamed “the hockey physician,” groped their genitals throughout sports activities practices once they had been youngsters. One man stated he was requested to undress and placed on bounce jackets.

Jonathan Jones, Levran’s legal professional, had argued in court docket that merely touching somebody’s genitals in a medical setting isn’t against the law.

However he acknowledged in April the injury Levran had brought about his victims. He stated Levran pleaded no contest to achieve some certainty in regards to the quantity of his sentence and to keep away from victims having to endure the ache of a trial, and he hoped the conviction would assist them get some closure.

“He won’t ever observe drugs once more. I hope that brings them some consolation,” Jones stated.

Levran labored with a number of youth hockey groups, together with the Farmington United Hockey group, St. Mary’s Preparatory Excessive Faculty in West Bloomfield Township and Novi Excessive Faculty. He additionally offered free medical care to highschool college students all through Michigan and taught energy yoga.