Allegations Against Former Owners Of HRC Medical

by Jennifer Kraus Consumer Investigator

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Stunning new allegations have been made against the former owners of HRC Medical which once claimed to be the world's largest hormone replacement company.

The Tennessee Attorney General sued the company last fall for putting patients' lives in danger after NewsChannel 5 Investigates exposed how some had been overdosed on hormones and experienced serious side effects.

The state has accused the owners of HRC of cleaning out the company's bank accounts and leaving nothing for the victims of HRC.

In an unsealed amended complaint, the Tennessee Attorney General said brothers Don and Dan Hale not only raided HRC Medical's accounts last year with their families, but also transferred all of its assets to other entities they still controlled and intentionally left the company insolvent.

The state said the Hales took almost $2 million from the company -- money the state had hoped to use to compensate patients who suffered serious health complications from HRC's hormone replacement therapy.

Former patients, like Roger Wyatt, told NewsChannel 5 Investigates back in November of 2011 how his personal doctor told him, "By their own laboratory standards, you've been severely overdosed with testosterone."

According to the state's lawsuit, it all began after NewsChannel 5 Investigates' first report more than a year and a half ago when patients described how they'd been overdosed with hormones at HRC.

A female patient who had asked us to hide her identity told us, "My voice is deeper and now I have hair, stubble on my chin and my upper lip."

Not long after, the state launched its own investigation and eventually sued HRC for misleading customers and putting their lives in danger by failing to warn them of serious health risks associated with hormone replacement therapy.

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