On Thursday, January 18, 2018, Virginia Lambing, Paralegal at Simas & Associates, Ltd., attended the first formal meeting of the Cannabis Advisory Committee. The Cannabis Advisory Committee’s purpose is to advise the newly formed Bureau of Cannabis Control on the development of regulations related to the marijuana industry. The meeting, Read more…
Back in 2012, Simas & Associates published a blog entitled Physicians Beware! Unforeseen Consequences of Meeting with Medical Board Investigators. Since that time, our legal team continues to attend numerous interviews with investigators from the Department of Consumer Affairs ("Department") on behalf of the Medical Board of California ("Board"). It is time Read more…
When considering the sale of your healthcare practice (regardless of whether you are a physician, physical therapist, dentist, optometrist, etc.), you will undoubtedly be confronted by a litany of questions: Valuation – how do I ensure I get a fair price? Type of Sale – am I selling assets or majority of Read more…
A California Professional Corporation may be a C-Corporation or an S-Corporation, and is organized to provide services in professions that require a state license in order to practice. Services that constitute professional services are defined in the California Corporations Code section 13401, which includes most healthcare professionals, including doctors and Read more…
Mediation is a flexible, non-binding, confidential process in which a Neutral (mediator) facilitates settlement negotiations. The informal session typically begins with a presentation of each side's view of the dispute, either through counsel or the clients. The mediator, who may meet with the parties in joint and/or separate sessions, works Read more…
Did you familiarize yourself with the proposed regulations for the marijuana industry in California? In May, the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation released its first draft of regulations. As we discussed previously, these regulations were pulled and will not go into effect. We do anticipate, however, that some regulations will go Read more…
Actions and activities of employees done at work, while working, or using employer property can be imputed to the employer. This relationship is regularly used to attach liability to the employer. However, it also works in the reverse. If the employer can be held liable, they also get to "own" Read more…
Recently, we have found ourselves assisting more and more clients in civil litigation matters. Litigation is fun, exciting and, at times, frustrating, but it is also expensive for clients, which is why clients generally treat it as a last resort. It becomes even more expensive when the opposing side is Read more…
If you’ve received a letter from the medical board that a patient has filed a complaint against you, you may be furious, confused, scared or just annoyed. To defend against this allegation, you may be in for a long, complicated process. This process is, in many ways, more complicated than Read more…
If you’ve been convicted of a DUI, you are required to report that conviction to the California Medical Board. Section 802.1(a)(1)(B) of the Business & Professions Code requires Physicians & Surgeons to report, “the conviction of a licensee, including any verdict of guilty or plea of guilty or no contest, of Read more…