Texas Jury Renders Historic Multi-Million Dollar Verdict Against Rogue Pill Mill for Dispensing Prescription Drugs That Caused Man’s Death

Press Release/January 20, 2011/ABMN Staff
Houston, TX — A Texas jury has decided that a rogue pill mill and its physician should pay $10,700,000 in damages to the family of a man that died from prescription drugs obtained from the clinic. The verdict is believed to be the first rendered in a civil court against a pill mill due to a death caused by the prescription cocktail of vicodin, xanax, and soma.
Hastings Law Firm, PC has obtained what is being called a historic verdict against a “pill mill” on behalf of the family of an accidental overdose vicitm…
Evidence showed that the Family Medi Clinic in The Woodlands, Texas operated as a “pill mill” during 2007…
Evidence at the trial showed that Dr. Maurice S. Conte (Medical Director of the clinic) was involved with at least 17 “pill mills” in 2007.
The combination of those drugs (vicodin, xanax, soma), often referred to as “the cocktail” has no legitimate medical use according to experts at the trial.
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