Massachusetts
Massachusetts Doctor’s Deceptive Advertising Suspension Stands
Massachusetts’ doctor licensing board doesn’t should show a health care provider dedicated common-law fraud earlier than suspending them from training drugs primarily based on misleading or deceptive conduct, the state’s prime courtroom stated Thursday.
State laws that prohibit physicians from partaking in promoting that’s “false, misleading, or deceptive,” and “conduct which has the capability to deceive or defraud” are clear, and neither requires proof of intent, data, materiality, or reliance, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court docket stated.
The courtroom received’t learn these components into the laws, it added in an opinion affirming the indefinite suspension of Ryan Weltner’s license to observe drugs.
Weltner ran …