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Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said Phipps (second from right) screwed up in court submissions. Does it matter?
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff told the
Wolff commented on a summary of Dr. Bryan Alsip’s purported opinions about aspects of the opioid case that the Phipps firm turned into the court without Alsip ever having signed off on what Phipps team had written.
Alsip is the chief medical officer for University Health System, which is a plaintiff along with the county in the case and also one of the biggest hospitals in the area. In his capacity as CMO he could potentially testify about treating and overseeing the treatment of hundreds, if not thousands, of addicted people and the lives lost in battle against a national epidemic of opioid use. He could also testify about how drug companies marketed and sold drugs.