A Mobile County circuit judge has ordered three more Alabama injury clinics to close, expanding a legal fight that began with a Mobile clinic accused of running a scheme to inflate car accident settlements. Judge Michael Windom issued the order Friday morning, telling the clinics’ owners that “they’re breaking the law.”
The case traces back to August 2025, when the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office shut down South Alabama Medical & Rehab on Old Shell Road. Prosecutors alleged the clinic was part of a larger operation involving telemarketers and law firms that pushed car accident victims into expensive treatment plans designed less for patients’ health than to maximize the settlement value of their claims.
Nearly a year after that clinic ceased operating, Windom ordered three related clinics outside coastal Alabama, located in Montgomery, Homewood and Huntsville, to shut down as well while the district attorney’s investigation continues. Assistant District Attorney Clay Rossi told the court that chiropractor Michael Kent Plambeck, a part owner of all four clinics, has a hand in their management. Plambeck was previously found guilty of violating the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in a similar scheme in 2013.
Prosecutors say that after the Mobile clinic’s operators shut it down, they redirected its operations to the other three clinics, including a patient pipeline that had once supplied the Mobile location. Windom said he had heard enough evidence to issue an injunction barring Plambeck and others from continuing to operate the clinics. An attorney representing Plambeck objected, arguing the order was overly broad given that the other clinics were not part of the original lawsuit, but the judge stood by his decision.