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October 5, 2020 in Competition // Board upheld in denying practice exclusivity to licensees based on FTC v. North Carolina Dental Examiners
October 5, 2020 in Certification // Physician seeking exam exemption from national specialty certifying body must bring suit in Texas, where certifier is located
October 5, 2020 in Consumer Protection // Discipline of agent who defrauded clients & skipped hearing upheld
October 5, 2020 in Discipline // Discipline of licensee for showing patient records to wife upheld
October 5, 2020 in Discipline // Board must hear MD’s appeal of order to submit to three-day impairment evaluation

Automatic expungement trend gives clean slate to license applicants facing criminal background checks

Obtaining expungement of a criminal record has long involved paying legal fees, filing a court petition, appearing in court, and undergoing a mandatory wait. Historically, [...]
Board hid investigators’ actual caseload with fake data for Auditor

The directive in a 2016 state audit of the California Board of Registered Nursing was clear: Investigators should not be handling more than 20 cases at a time; the board [...]
COVID-19 pandemic sends many state licensing exams on furlough

One side-effect of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, which has imposed lockdown conditions in many states, is the indefinite tabling of many exam [...]
Federal court okays class action over foreign-graduate licensing

A federal judge in Pennsylvania, on March 23, certified a class of patient plaintiffs in a suit against the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, authorizing [...]
No requirement to erase temporary ban on doctor’s treating female patients from federal Data Bank

A Texas case centered on the question of whether a temporary restriction of a physician’s license should remain in the National Practitioner Data Bank, when the [...]
U.S. partially bases choice of sites for military bases on states’ success in improving reciprocity

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) confirms that decisions on where to site military bases and allocate other defense spending are being affected by the relative strictness [...]

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