Clients frequently come to me with issues regarding their child care licensing issues. Whether it is because they accidentally hired an employee with a criminal past, they are alleged to have endangered a child, or their facility is understaffed, any one of these allegations can end your career as a childcare provider. If you are […]
Physician clients from both Kansas and Missouri often ask me why their licenses are so frequently targeted for discipline. My answer varies depending on the case, but always includes the factors: we live in an extremely litigious nation, physicians are perceived as “deep pockets” eager to pay out settlements, and medicine is a highly regulated […]
Everyone working in the medical field is aware of “HIPAA.” Congress created the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to protect patients’ privacy and to make sure that patients’ records were held securely. Serious penalties may result from doctors, nurses, hospitals, or other medical providers violating HIPAA, ranging from minor fines of […]
Licensure actions often come hand-in-hand with a claim of negligence against a physician. My physician clients often ask me to provide an overview of trends that I am seeing here in Missouri and Kansas or nationally. Once such trend is negligence claims based on a physician’s failure to diagnose uterine cancer. Specifically, the issue is […]
Certified Public Accountants are highly-trained and highly-respected members of the community. The key to practicing as a CPA is your license. For a variety of reasons, accountants are sometimes accused of engaging in unethical practices or misconduct. Sometimes these complaints are false or are retaliation by a disgruntled client. Other times, unfortunately, they are the […]
People often ask me what sort of trends I see in medical license defense. One of the most common areas revolves around medical professionals acting as “health coaches” in areas that are beyond their licensure. What usually happens is that a person begins to advise beyond their licensed specialty, and they tell themselves that this […]
Like all professions, veterinary medicine is now online. Just ten years ago, there was insufficient broadband and infrastructure to support a genuinely on-line veterinary practice. Now both of those problems have been solved, and veterinarians have almost boundless ability to interact with patients. But while the technological boundaries have fallen, the legal and licensure boundaries […]
Chiropractors are a highly-trained and highly-respected members of the medical community. The key to practicing as a chiropractor is your state-issued chiropractic license. For a variety of reasons, patients sometimes make false claims of misconduct against chiropractors; other times, unfortunately, chiropractors engage in misconduct themselves. Either way, aggressive, experienced licensing counsel is critical to defending […]
While there are many types of allegations against medical professionals, what I most commonly see are negligence claims. I think that society’s high expectations for the medical profession make this type of allegation especially prevalent. Patients begin treatment with lofty hopes of being completely healed in a short period of time, even when that result […]
People used to ask me what sort of trends I am seeing in medical license defense. I do not hear that question as much anymore, as you do not have to be involved in medical licensing issues to know that there is an opioid crisis in the United States. Physicians are perceived as the root […]