Detox Center in California Hit With $9 Million Verdict Over Patient’s Death

A Marin County jury has returned a verdict of nearly $9.1 million against a San Rafael detox center over the death of a client.

Rahul Pinto, a San Jose tech entrepreneur who was an alcoholic, was admitted to the Bayside Marin Treatment Center in January 2017.

“Decedent was drinking a half-pint of vodka per day, and on that day of admission he had consumed four ounces of vodka at 7:00 a.m. and four ounces at 10:00 a.m.,” Bradley Corsiglia, a lawyer for Pinto’s widow, wrote in a wrongful death lawsuit.

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