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Again I am having reply problems.A few the other day but this one is back .
I just spent quite a bit of time responding to this question below, with countless District /Regional GC contact numbers and also the main OGC phone number and fax number I used for years.
The reply area to the link below shows me a past reply and even if I erase it I cannot post the info I saved in Word.
HOWEVER, if the poster sees this..I assume You still have an attorney who dealt with this.
They know who ,at the OGC, should have obtained the evidence that you said they did not have.
Also the attorney should have it and contact them and send it to them.
if you some lawyer who is intimidated by OGC, do it yourself and contact General Counsel yourself.
test...looks like I can post the reply here...I cant post it at the thread it belongs in.
"The General Counsel’s contact info is often hard to find.
The main contact number I used for many years was:
1-202-273-6660. I know that number by heart but checked my old phone logs and that always got me to OGC lawyers.
The fax number I used years ago was Fax 1-202-273-6385
I think they might have changed these numbers by now. Not sure.
However more recent contacts I had involved the OGC accreditation email below this list…but I would have to dig around for the last phone number I used in that regard.
Is your lawyer dealing with a District (aka Regional VA lawyer) or directly with the OGC in Washington DC? (it appears he/she dealt directly with OGC in DC)
After the OGC reply was noted in the decision, you are saying:
"because she got her answer from OGC who never saw the report "
How do you know they never got the report?
I don’t doubt you at all due to my past VA experiences, but seems to me your lawyer knows who he/she dealt with and should be jumping on this for you.
I even wonder if the OGC saw any of the probative evidence, such as this:
“Well I submitted in with the report his 13 page resume dealing out degree in mechanical engineering, 20 years as a forensic senior engineer, 9 years as a mechanical engineer for the navy, written 41 published articles dealing with testing with seatbelts, 6 presentations on seatbelts in front of the worlds congress, 4 certificates of crash data analyst's and technician. He has received 9 awards, 2 patents dealing with impact injury testing, and lastly he has been an instructor 42 times dealing with crash protection system testing for the navy.He worked with the officer specifically in charge of my crash as well.”
My first FTCA case was denied because the RO withheld evidence from the C & P doctor and also from the Office of General Counsel.
It was also denied because a very favorable Peer review report that supported my malpractice charges ‘disappeared’ from the VA. The VA doc and the Regional counsel who wanted to settlement with me in mere months after filing my SF 95 also ‘disappeared’ too.(but I found them) and even OMLA VA ( Office of Medical-Legal VA) told me this report had never even existed.
I had to fight the OGC without it.
Years later it showed up right at the bottom of my C file! I used to succeed in my AO IHD death claim.
This crap might not have happened to me if I had a lawyer for the FTCA….
You Have a lawyer.I assume you still have one. If they are too intimidated by the OGC, call the OGC yourself.
These are VA District Counsel offices:
Continental - East
AR, LA, MS
Sonya Cromwell (Jackson)
(601) 364-1261
Continental - West
CO, MT, OK, TX, UT, WY
Jeffrey Stacey (Denver)
(303) 914-5810
Midwest - East
IN, MI, OH
Dennis McGuire (Columbus)
(614) 388-7039
Midwest - West
IA, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD, WI
Brent Pope (Chicago)
(708) 202-2216
North Atlantic - North
CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT
George Burns (Brooklyn)
(718) 630-2900
North Atlantic - South
DC, MD, NC, VA, WV
Dan Rattray (Winston-Salem)
(336) 631-5014
Pacific - North
AK, CA (Northern), HI, ID, NV, OR, WA
Suzanne Will (San Francisco)
(415) 750-2288
Pacific - South
AZ, CA (Southern), NM
Mark Romaneski (Phoenix)
(602) 212-2091
Southeast - North
AL, GA, KY, SC, TN
Tammy Kennedy (Nashville)
(615) 695-4633
Southeast - South
FL, PR
Catherine Mitrano (St. Petersburg)
(727) 540-3900
But this is their career opportunity contact map …they can switch you to the specific counsel in your district
(202) 273-0197 (Fax) for accreditation questions and complaints. I used that fax a lot years.They too should be able to switch you to an OGC attorney---if in fact a OGC-DC attorney was involved in that report.
http://community.hadit.com/topic/34157-office-of-general-counsel/
This link from Carlie includes Regional Counsel offices ( VA) but was posted in 2005:
http://community.hadit.com/topic/34157-office-of-general-counsel/
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Again I am having reply problems.A few the other day but this one is back . I just spent quite a bit of time responding to this question below, with countless District /Regional GC contact number
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I dont have a problem posting or replying. I use google chrome, but since I have Firefox, I will try that, too. Berta, Microsoft has an "automatic update" to Windows 10 if you have Win 7 or Wind
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Berta this is a fabulous post. Thank you. I did not know we could call OGC. VA does this a lot. There are people we could call to fix our problems, but they dont want us to know the number, so the
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