Hearing Set to Determine Competency of Attorney Indicted in Kickback Case

A federal judge scheduled a hearing next month to determine whether attorney Lee Mathis is competent to stand trial on charges of paying kickbacks to providers who referred work comp patients to a medical company he created. Attorneys for Mathis said they hired a psychologist who concluded that their client is not fit to stand trial. Mathis is suffering from an unreliable memory that is unlikely to improve and may get worse “as it is more likely than not diagnosable as a mild neurocognitive disorder due to possible Alzheimer’s disease from family history and other factors,&r...