Plaintiffs’ operative complaint alleged that decedent George Fenimore, Jr., suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, was prone to wandering away from home, and had begun to suffer an increased number of falls, leading his family to admit him to a local hospital. He was transferred from that hospital to Resnick…
Read More
RUVOLO, P.J. I. INTRODUCTION Respondent Michael Edward Rose (Rose) is a licensed clinical social worker who was subjected to professional disciplinary proceedings by appellant Board of Behavioral Sciences (Board)1 after he suffered three drunk driving convictions within 11 years. After the Board issued its ruling, Rose brought a petition for…
Read More
A Board of Psychology did not err in choosing to revoke a psychologist's license once it learned that a conditional indefinite suspension, with jurisdiction to revoke, was not possible, the District Court of Appeal of Florida held June 6 (William Kale, Ph.D. v. Department of Health). The board hoped to…
Read More
The traditional appointed board model for regulating the professions has been a fixture of state government for well over a century. But new models of delivering services, plus a pro-competition climate at the state and federal level, may be threatening the classic regulatory structure. The February 25 U.S. Supreme Court…
Read More
Neil A. Van Dyck, 64, of Roseville, California, pleaded guilty to health care fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Van Dyck was a California-licensed podiatrist who operated a podiatry practice in Roseville called Placer Podiatry. Van Dyck offered “spa”-like treatments and performed routine foot…
Read More
The Arizona state attorney general's office denied a request by the state's former medical board director to pay legal fees she incurred from a high-profile 2013 investigation by the state ombudsman. In a scathing report last October, the ombudsman found that both the director and deputy director ordered state employees…
Read More
A board's decision not to rescind a settlement agreement with a doctor, which the doctor said was offered to her without proper disclosures, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Iowa, in an August 27 ruling (DeLouis v. Iowa Board of Medicine). In 2012, the Iowa Board of Medicine…
Read More
A psychologist licensed in Israel, but not in the U.S., illegally offered his services in Pennsylvania and must pay civil penalties and stop holding himself out as a psychologist, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled August 11. (Abraham v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Board of Psychology). The memorandum…
Read More
An appellate court in Arizona ruled May 27 that the state cosmetology board may ban so-called fish pedicures, an unconventional method of dead-skin removal in which a customer places a foot or hand in a tank containing fish known as "doctor fish," which literally eat away dead skin from the…
Read More
A recommended order by an administrative law judge to revoke a dentist's license for possessing child pornography did not bear ample factual foundation, the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida held (Borges v. Department of Health). In an August 13 ruling, the appellate court reversed and remanded the state…
Read More