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FW: City Attorneys Cheat Injured Worker
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From: noreply@onlinequickblog.com
To: markadamsjdmba@hotmail.com
Subject: New Post at SUNBEAMTIMES.COM
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:09:08 -0700
SUNBEAMTIMES.COM published a new post entitled "City Attorneys Attempt to Divert Attention from their Incompetence and Failed Attempt to Deny City Worker Benefits." on 3/14/2013 10:08:51 PM, written by Dr. David McKalip. City Attorneys Attempt to Divert Attention from their Incompetence and Failed Attempt to Deny City Worker Benefits.
Tonight on the commentary section of the Tampa Bay Times story, the wife of Bradley Westphal, Dawn Westphal, offered that the city was looking to make a scapegoat out of me to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
To use my medical opinions obviously out of context in a court case that the state lost is unacceptable - especially when those same attorneys NEVER asked my expert opinion for the case. Note that Mrs. Westphal stated the attorney’s used language the I could not give a rating “at this time”. If all the facts were divulged in this case, it would be obvious that I was working to protect the interests of my patient while the attorney’s and the city were looking to avoid paying him benefits. To then divert attention away from their own failed legal case and loss of $150,000 in legal fees that should never have been spent is outrageous. The attorneys handled the case so badly it even led to a partial overturning of state workers compensation law as “unconstitutional” by the State Supreme Court. Finally, the attorney’s ignored obvious evidence that the city had that Mr. Westphal clearly deserved his benefits. Ultimately even the city recognized their folly and awarded the benefits – after much delay and much hardship on Mr. Westphal and waste of taxpayer dollars. Just outrageous.
This is a prime example of why I am running for City Council St. Petersburg. The political class wasted taxpayer money. They make bad decisions. Worst of all they promised benefits to city workers that they know they can’t afford and then try to avoid paying the benefits! Then to add insult to injury, a politician (Karl Nurse) who endorsed another candidate in the race on this very day is published in the newspaper the same day stating that “it does seem like a conflict of interest”. So there you have it, the political class protecting their own and abusing their position to produce the political results they want. It is clearly time for new leadership in City Council and for a new set of attorneys working for the taxpayers.
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