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Online Pharmacy Ordered to Pay FTC $15.8 Million

By R. Robin McDonald

Saying they 'dispensed deception,' a federal judge in Atlanta has ordered the founders and operators of a now-defunct online pharmacy business to pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') $15.8 million for fraudulent claims associated with the drugs they peddled. In his order, issued June 4, U.S. District Judge Charles A. Pannell also found Dr. Terrill Mark Wright, a physician associated with the online pharmacies, liable for $15.4 million to compensate consumers for false advertising claims.

Pannell released the findings in an order granting summary judgment to the FTC after a four-year legal battle against the National Urological Group (doing business as Warner Laboratories), the National Institute for Clinical Weight Loss Inc., Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc. (doing business as Planet Pharmacy, Global Pharmacy and others), Wright, and corporate officers Jared Wheat, Thomasz Holda, Michael Howell and Stephen Smith.

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