Comments on: Leon County Commission to Consider Opioid Litigation

By: Terry Ryan

Terry Ryan — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:21:56 +0000

Whatever investigation is pursued should include determining what “fees” or other gratuities doctors received from these manufacturers for each prescription they wrote and was filled.

By: james anderson

james anderson — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:16:10 +0000

As usual the blame is on business and not the individual. I had surgery a couple of years ago and took opioids for three weeks and then switched to Ibuprofen.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:21:05 +0000

Leon County Agenda: Agenda Item #12
February 27, 2018

During 2017 Leon County was approached by a number of law firms or teams of firms seeking
to represent Leon County in filing a lawsuit either in State or Federal Court making similar
allegations with regard to the manufacturers and distributors. While there are many teams of
firms, the ones most prevalent are: Drake Martin Law Firm, LLC; Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC;
Motley Rice, LLC; Levin Papatonio; Robins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP; and a more Florida
based conglomerate that is composed of the firms of Schochor, Federico and Staton, P.A., the
Romano Law Group, Fonvielle Lewis Messer & McConnaughhay, and Barney Bishop
Consulting, LLC. Virtually all of the law firms have offered to provide representation to their
clients on a contingency fee basis, with reimbursement for costs. While we have seen some of
the retainer agreements from representation of other Counties in Florida, none have been
specifically proposed to Leon County at this time.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:32:29 +0000

This is NOT a function of county commissioners and due to the present incompetence and corruption at the city and county no surprise here… another ludicrous action on the ludicrous and inaction on what they are supposed to be doing.

It would be interesting to know who are the usual suspects (now criminal suspects) behind this proposed costly action that is NOT a county level function. I think that is the real story.

They are unable to administer and manage the Joint Dispatch, Waste Pro, crime, CRA, etc… so, I guess when all else fails look for another angle that will enrich their cronies, that will drain the taxpayers dollars, and be funneled out to their special interests.

The culture of corruption is so prevalent that it morphs into inhumanity and citizens and the community suffer the consequences because of this nonsense. Yet one more example of the absurd by city and county officials. At the least it should be on the state level by the Attorney General.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:56:28 +0000

It seems like a good idea…sigh…now if we only had an honest group of commissioners, mayor, and other upper leadership to implement it honestly and properly.
I know already…maybe because the FBI’s watching they might be honest with this opioid litigation and for the first time avoid any kick backs or deals with usual suspects…but can you really trust them with anything important?
Don’t you all kind of feel they already want to select Esquire Sean Pittman to go get this opioid litigation money for them? And then the honest oppressed citizens will have to deal with the mismanagement of any windfall opioid litigation moneys in the control of our usual suspects…sigh…