Emailing Steve
November 2nd, 2012 @ 10:49 am

On the morning of Friday, November 2nd, 2012, I sent the following email to attorney Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP:   Sent: November 2, 2012 @ 10:49 AM PSTSubject: Re: Status Update? Hey Steve, (1) Can you tell me the date that Woodland Terrace was first made aware of our request for my […]

RE: Status Update?
November 1st, 2012 @ 1:45 pm

Just before two o’clock in the afternoon of November 1st, 2012, attorney Steve Phillips finally replied to one of my emails. By this point I had emailed or called him over a dozen times, so his comment that he “must have missed the one e-mail” was very annoying.   From: Phillips, Steve <sphillips@wprclaw.com> To: Gagne, […]

Communication Breakdown?
November 1st, 2012 @ 11:20 am

As of today, November 1st, 2012, it’s been a full three weeks since I last heard from Steve Phillips, the attorney from Pincus & Currier LLP who is helping me deal with mom’s case. I sent him this email just now, and in it I included my previous two (unanswered) emails:   Hey Steve, I’m […]

Any Update?
September 27th, 2012 @ 9:26 am

On the morning of September 27th, 2012 — a month and a half after my mom died — I sent this email to my attorney, Steve Phillips, of Pincus & Currier, LLP: Hey Steve, My sister (in Seattle) and I both received our mother’s ashes earlier this week. Both of them were poorly packaged and […]

Death Certificate
August 29th, 2012 @ 10:44 pm

Here is an email I sent to the first lawyer who was helping me deal with things after mom died. Obtaining a copy of her death certificate was — like seemingly everything else — a huge pain:   From: Gagne, David To: Phillips, Steve <sphillips@wprclaw.com> Subject: Death Certificate Sent: August 29, 2012 1:44 AM ET […]

Fee agreement and related documents
August 24th, 2012 @ 11:09 am

  From: Steven Phillips <SPhillips@wprclaw.com> To: Gagne, David Subject: Fee agreement and related documents Sent: August 24, 2012 11:09 AM David, Attached are the following: Intake information page Our firm’s standard Contingency Fee Agreement Client’s Bill of Rights Medical Authorization release Please fill out the intake sheet with your contact information with your mom’s date […]

Steve Phillips Returns My Call
August 15th, 2012 @ 2:22 pm

A little after five o’clock in the afternoon of August 15th, just a few days after mom died, attorney Steve Phillips returned my call. I explained to him the events of the last week and quickly gave him an overview of everything that has happened over the last nine months. Mr. Phillips told me that […]

The Law Offices of Michael Bard
August 15th, 2012 @ 12:40 pm

A couple of days after mom died, I called 1 the Law Offices of Michael Bard at (800) 516-2132 and spoke to a woman named Laurie, who answered the phone there. She asked me to explain what sort of problem I was facing and I explained — quickly — the events of the last week. […]

Steve Phillips
August 15th, 2012 @ 10:47 am

A little after lunch on August 15th, 2012, I called Steve Phillips, an attorney who is an acquaintance of my father-in-law’s best friend. He did not answer, so I left him a very brief message asking him to return my call and telling him how I’d been referred to him.

Reaching Out
June 11th, 2012 @ 3:34 pm

On June 11th, 2012 I emailed my friend’s dad, who is a lawyer in California, to ask him for some advice about what happened to mom when she had a colonoscopy at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach, FL:   From: David V. Gagne To: [redacted] Sent: June 11, 2012 @ 03:34 PM PDT Hey [redacted], […]