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February 12, 2020Posts

What Professionals Can Do to Combat Online Reputation Damage

Over the past thirty years, the internet has played an increasingly intrusive role in the work lives of professionals. This trend can be viewed as especially pernicious when a professional’s license falls under attack. The effects of a complaint or report, easily accessible to anyone with a web browser, can come as a serious blow to one’s professional reputation. And, as any professional knows, reputation is everything. The advice that the passage of time will...

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February 11, 2020Posts

Dealing with National Practitioner Data Bank Disciplinary Action Listings

As a national clearinghouse of information regarding the many sorts of disciplinary actions taken against those in the medical profession, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) carries the power to break the livelihood of a professional. Its reports are used by people at many levels in the healthcare industry—such as health plans, clinics, hospitals, state Medicare fraud control units, quality improvement organizations, professional societies with formal peer review, and licensing boards like the Texas Board...

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February 10, 2020Posts

How We Defend Your Professional License in Texas

Professionals of all stripes operate under licenses granted by the state of Texas under the auspices of numerous boards dedicated to enforcing the rules of their forming agencies. This sub-branch of administrative law holds an outsized level of importance in the lives of many Texans, from doctors to electricians, who dedicate years of their lives to getting the education and training they need in order to pass muster to earn the licenses to practice their...

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February 09, 2020Posts

Becoming Aware a Complaint Has Been Filed Against Your License

Professionals are often surprised to learn that a complaint against their license was not immediately reported to them. Indeed, the process for most licensing boards—though these various boards do differ in the particulars of their requirements and the procedures by which they enforce them—is to review a given complaint thoroughly for certain criteria before alerting the professional against whom the complaint was made. Those criteria include: Whether the agency has jurisdiction over the complaint. A...

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February 07, 2020Posts

TDLR Sunset Review Begins

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TLDR) recently entered the first stage of its scheduled Sunset Review. TLDR, established by Chapter 51 of the Texas Occupations Code, is the oversight agency for a broad swath of licenses granted in the state of Texas—from Air Conditioner and Refrigeration Contractors, to Licensed Breeders, to Weather Modification, and a whole host of professions between. In each of these professions, TLDR establishes advisory boards composed of representatives from...

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February 06, 2020Posts

Maintaining Your Texas Real Estate License

In the course of engaging in the real estate market, a sales or buyer broker will on occasion be met with an official complaint against their license. In the state of Texas, the governing agency over real estate professionals is the Texas Real Estate Commission. In addition to granting licenses to individuals who have fulfilled the established criteria, the Commission also oversees the maintenance and disciplinary functions for license-holders. An official complaint can be a...

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February 04, 2020Posts

Professional License Complaints: The Type of Attorney You Need

When you are subject to a professional complaint that comes under the review of a licensing board or agency in the state of Texas, you will want to have an attorney by your side. The process is too complicated to go through on your own, and most often the boards doing the review have been put in place by the legislature to be on the complainant’s side—as protectors of the public interest—rather than giving leniency...

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February 03, 2020Posts

FAQ’s Our Clients Ask – Texas Professional License Defense

If you have received a complaint notice from your Texas licensing board, you know the meaning of the word “stress.” Since the Board has likely already done some investigation into whether the complaint merits pursuing, you’re in a situation where quick and decisive action is a must. We get asked a lot of questions by clients who contact us, many of whom are reeling and feel like they may not be able to make their...

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February 02, 2020Posts

5 Ways to Protect Your Professional License

Even when a practitioner—be they medical professional, teacher, podiatrist or architect—under investigation based on a claim is perfectly certain that the accusation is baseless, the licensing board under whose competence the claim falls is utterly in the dark on the matter. The fact is, most of these licensing boards have been charged by the legislature with protecting the public, not the licensees under their purview. Therefore, any complaint, however baseless, must be treated with complete...

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February 01, 2020Posts

Why Did My Patient File a Complaint Against Me?

It is not uncommon for patients to file complaints against physicians before the Texas Medical Board. In fact, doctors are among the most second-guessed of the licensed professions, due to the make-or-break nature of their work. People are unforgiving when they put their health in another person’s hands. The Board receives in excess of 7,000 complaints in a given year. While the most common forms of complaints against doctors are things like misdiagnosis and delayed...

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