Health care manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil investigations over allegations that they marketed three drugs for uses that were never approved, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday in Washington. The settlements also cover claims that the companies gave “kickbacks” to physicians […]
Early on Halloween, 2013, I received an email from a lawyer in Florida who is a family friend and had contacted me the previous week. He wrote: From: Snipes, Shane To: Gagne, David Cc: Rawnsley, Marlia Subject: Re: Case.. Sent: October 31, 2013 11:26 AM Just a follow up to make sure you guys […]
From: Gagne, David To: Burke, Pat; Ashton, Frank Subject: Kathleen A. Gagne: Medical Records, etc. Sent: October 30, 2013 10:57 AM Dear Frank and Patricia, I have copies of my mother’s medical records from Woodland Terrace, Halifax Hospital, and several other facilities. Would you like me to email these to you? The majority of […]
From: Burke, Pat <burke@jaxlegal.net> To: Gagne, David Subject: Document in ProLaw Sent: October 25, 2013 7:50 AM Mr. Gagne, We are in the process of obtaining some additional medical records regarding your Mother, Kathleen Gagne, but we don’t have any signed authorizations for release of information. Would you please sign only the attached authorization […]
From: Snipes, Shane To: Gagne, David Subject: Web access Sent: October 24, 2013 12:33 PM Can you give me the access to Kathiegagne.com site? I will forward over to attorney.
From: Snipes, Shane To: Gagne, David Subject: Case.. Sent: October 24, 2013 12:25 PM Good afternoon, I have a meeting in am with Nursing home Attorney that is interested in your case.. Are you free to talk via Phone or email if she needs you tomorrow? I am sorry for the delay she was […]
Just before 9 o’clock this morning I received a phone call from Frank Ashton, the attorney Kelly Mathis had asked to help with the investigation of mom’s case. Mr. Ashton and I spoke for just under an hour; I gave him the abridged version of the events leading to mom’s death and he asked many […]
From: Gagne, David To: Snipes, Shane Subject: Re: Medical Records Review Status Sent: October 18, 2013 1:43 PM Hello, Shane, I haven’t heard from you since this email, but wanted to reach out again. Over the course of August and September we actually managed to get the paramedics, the hospital, and one of the […]
I’ll be honest with you: I did not see this one coming. I just received this email from the lawyer who has been handling mom’s case since the beginning of the year: From: Mathis Kelly <kmathis@mathislaw.net> To: Gagne, David CC: Perez Katherine <kperez@mathislaw.net> CC: Frank Ashton <ashton@jaxlegal.net> Subject: Kathleen Gagne claim Sent: October 18, […]
I hadn’t heard anything from Katie Perez, the legal assistant at K.B. Mathis, P.A., since September 26th — more than two weeks — so on Monday, October 14th, I sent her an email asking for an update. It’s been three days since then, so I forwarded that same email to Katie again and added this […]