Aaron Carter family settles with Amen Clinics in $650,000 case
Aaron Carter’s family reached a partial settlement with Amen Clinics on May 12 in the wrongful death lawsuit tied to aaron carter’s Xanax prescriptions before his death. The deal resolves the claims against Dr. John Faber through his psychiatry practice, but three other defendants are still headed toward an October trial.
Amen Clinics and Dr. Faber
The filing says Amen Clinics agreed to pay a confidential sum to fully resolve the allegations against Faber, and lawyers wrote that the amount was within the “ballpark” share of potential damages attributable to Amen Clinics and Dr. Faber. The case had been filed on behalf of Carter’s toddler son and sole heir, Princeton Lyric Carter.
Under California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, general damages in the case were capped at $650,000. Amen’s attorneys said that if the clinic had gone to trial and lost, its share of any verdict would have been 50 percent or less, limiting its liability to $325,000. That figure gives the settlement a clear ceiling to work against, and it leaves the remaining defendants to fight over the rest.
Princeton Lyric Carter
The lawsuit targets claims that two doctors and two pharmacies overprescribed and supplied Aaron Carter with excessively high and unreasonably frequent amounts of Xanax before he died. A Los Angeles County judge ruled last year that Princeton Lyric Carter had a right to a jury trial on those claims.
Amen maintained that the clinic followed all standards of care and said Carter’s death was caused by inhalation of difluoroethane from canisters, not Xanax. Carter was found dead by a housekeeper in his Lancaster, California, home in November 2022, and his autopsy said he became incapacitated in the bathtub after inhaling compressed gas and taking alprazolam.
October trial ahead
Marc Lazo said, “We’re pleased to resolve the case against Dr. Faber and Amen Clinics, and we hope the remaining defendants will see the light in terms of the egregious liability they face at trial and will likewise look to settle.” The remaining defendants are Jason Mirabile, Walgreens, and Santa Monica Medical Plaza Pharmacy, and they have not settled.
For Princeton Lyric Carter, the settlement trims one defendant from a case still set to test how far the other three parties can push their defense in October. For the rest of the defendants, Amen’s exit narrows the battlefield but does not change the calendar they still face.
