Florian Martin
A widely known Houston attorney encountering a possible examination by the State Bar of Texas, for allegedly utilizing the trademark of a dead specialist in a court declaring, declares the lawful paper was rather authorized by a making it through family member with the very same name.
Lawyer Eric Penis, a previous Houston City board prospect and chosen board participant for the Harris Area Division of Education And Learning, is representing Matthew and Monica Dawkins in a government claim versus insurer Allstate. The claim, submitted in February 2024, implicates Allstate of wrongfully rejecting a problems assert pertaining to a home water leakage.
On April 5, 2024, Allstate submitted a movement to disregard the instance, declaring the claim was pointless. In reaction, Penis submitted an authorized and notarized sworn statement saying that Richard Gadrow, a certified public insurer, had actually checked the home in Might 2023 and discovered damages.
In an order submitted recently, united state Area Court Andrew Hanen stated Penis required to describe why he apparently submitted a sworn statement authorized by a professional that had actually been dead for greater than 10 months.
A lawyer standing for Penis’s law office stated Monday it’s a situation of incorrect identification.
” Richard A. Gadrow (papa) died in June 2023,” lawyer Sartaj Bal created in a declaration to Houston Public Media. “This April 2024 sworn statement was implemented by Richard Brandon Gadrow (child), that dealt with his papa and afterwards remained to run the household’s organization after the papa’s fatality.”
Hanen created in his Feb. 18 program reason order that Penis and his law office have till March 7 to verify there was a reputable trademark on the sworn statement– otherwise they might be described the State Bar of Texas for an official examination and prospective disbarment, the instance might be disregarded and the notary public entailed might encounter criminal fees of perjury and cord scams, to name a few prospective effects.
” Making complex points for Complainants’ advise, is the truth that Gadrow passed away virtually a year previously on June 2, 2023, after an apparently hard fight with mind cancer cells,” Hanen created in his order. “This is a reality understood to Complainants’ advise considering that at the very least December of 2023.”
Hanen additionally created in his order that Penis “has actually been formerly approved for relying upon ‘skilled point of view’ from Gadrow without Gadrow’s understanding. … Because instance, Gadrow specified in a January 2023 deposition that he had actually never ever been asked to act as a professional and did not create the record advise submitted.”
The lawyers standing for Allstate in the event did not promptly react to an e-mail Monday looking for remark.
Court records reveal that a “Richard Gadrow” had actually authorized the sworn statement concerned, without a center name or preliminary being consisted of.
Penis insurance claims Allstate understood the more youthful Gadrow authorized the sworn statement and affirmed or else as a justification to attract limelights and “drag his name with the mud.”
The more youthful Gadrow, in a Monday phone meeting with Houston Public Media, stated he had actually authorized the sworn statement and taken control of the household’s organization after his papa ended up being unwell.
” It’s a joke. I share the very same initial and last name with my papa,” he stated. “I, certainly, authorized that sworn statement that existed to me. … It’s sort of foolish to me that this is also a trouble due to the fact that they [Allstate] recognize I exist. I’m called on like 51 various assessments with Allstate as Richard Gadrow.”
At the moment of magazine Monday mid-day, on the internet court documents revealed that Penis and his law office had not officially reacted to Hanen’s program reason order, which was one of the most current declaring in the event.
