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March 06, 2020 Medical License Defense

Accusations of Fraud and Your Dental License

A dentist who has achieved licensure will have gone through a great deal of education and qualification to earn their right to practice their chosen profession. Having earned that license, you should do nothing that can put your livelihood in jeopardy. In the normal course of doing business, a practitioner will be required to interact with insurance carriers so that patients can have their dental care covered. In general, an insurance company will provide a...

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How an agent under your supervision could cause you to lose your real estate license

March 05, 2020 Real Estate License Defense

How an Agent Under Your Supervision Could Cause You to Lose Your Real Estate Broker’s License

A real estate broker in the state of Texas has done a great deal of work to not only be licensed to buy or sell real estate on behalf of clients, but to own their own firm that is worked by other licensees. In fact, real estate licensees cannot sell or buy real estate on their own—they must be sponsored by a licensed broker. In the state of Texas, real estate licenses—both for brokers and...

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March 04, 2020 Real Estate License Defense

When a Perception of Misrepresentation Endangers Your Real Estate License

When you have worked hard to earn your real estate license, a rewarding career is in the offing. The last thing you want to do is to endanger your livelihood by putting that license at risk of being revoked. Any accusation against your license should be met with a vigorous defense. That includes when someone has complained that you have engaged in misrepresentation by failing to disclose important facts about a property. A real estate...

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March 03, 2020 Accountant License Defense

When a CPA is Accused of Violating Best Practices

Mistakes in any profession can proceed from becoming overworked—and those in professions with “crunch times,” many of whom perhaps make the bulk of their yearly income during a certain time of year, are at particular risk for accidentally violating best practices or for being wrongfully accused of doing so. For some CPAs, this season is tax season—harvest time for the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy. While there are a number of breaches of best...

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Student loan debt default can cause you to lose your professional license in texas

March 02, 2020 Posts

When Student Loan Debt Default Could Cause You to Lose Your Professional License in Texas

Student loan debt has been in the news a lot for the past few years, as the cost of getting a higher education has skyrocketed well beyond the rate of salary inflation. Unfortunately, for quite a while a number of states—including Texas—have had laws on the books that permit licensing agencies to strip professionals of their licenses if they fall behind on payments of their student loans. Our state’s Sunset Advisory Commission back in 1988...

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March 01, 2020 Posts

Licensure Consequences When an Attorney is Accused of a Crime

As an attorney, you have put in a considerable amount of time and energy toward becoming a licensed professional, including law school and passing the Texas Bar Exam. Being accused of a crime risks losing all that you have worked so hard for. Yet when an attorney has been charged with a crime, particularly a crime that the State Bar has determined to be one whose commission is germane to a lawyer’s fitness to practice...

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February 29, 2020 Posts

The Risks of Accusations of Over-Prescription of Medication

It’s a hot topic in society at the moment: the over-prescription of medications. With deaths due to abuse of prescription painkillers occurring at a troubling rate—and even attributed in popular media to the death of the television character Roseanne Connors—it makes sense for our governments to keep an eye on what’s going on. But, as so often happens with any high-profile issue of grave public concern, it is far too easy for things to fall...

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February 28, 2020 Posts

Murkiness in the Standards of Care and Maintaining Your Dental License

The concept of “minimum standard of care” has gone a long way toward causing damage to the livelihood of many Texas dentists. Particularly where the standards of care as established in guiding documents are murky or unclear, dentists can find themselves being held to what appeared to be only recommendations, with their livelihoods on the line. The minimum standard of care is a legal concept that basically describes the quality and type of treatment that...

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February 27, 2020 Posts

Protecting Your Medical License When a Patient Falsely Claims Improper Relationship

Ever since the days of Hippocrates—who included in his famous physician’s oath the words, “In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men […]” — the concept of improper relationships in doctor-patient interactions has been a topic of concern. In today’s society, we may be seeing...

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February 26, 2020 Posts

The Large-Scale Downside to Overzealous Medical Board Discipline

While the Texas Medical Board, like other medical boards across the nation, has been established with the explicit goal of promoting and ensuring patient safety, there are times its actions go too far. A state’s citizens are safest when the state has a proper ratio of fully-practicing physicians to the number of potential patients. Which is to say, where disciplinary actions taken by medical boards serve to either dissuade qualified professionals from becoming practicing physicians...

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