Excessive Prescription of Pain Medications Resulting in Death
Greenwood, SC -- Mr. Myers represented the estate of a man who died from an overdose of Oxycontin prescribed by a pain management specialist treating the decedent's chronic back pain. The prescribing physician had already been criminally convicted and sentenced to 32 years in prison for this death and other prescription-related crimes when this wrongful death case was resolved for $900,000.
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