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Tennessee Board issues fines, warnings and closures across dozen-plus complaint cases; refers repeat unlicensed matters to prosecutors
Summary
At its Jan. 14 meeting the Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers accepted counsel's recommendations on more than a dozen complaint files, issuing civil penalties, letters of warning or closure and referring a set of recurring unlicensed-activity complaints to district attorneys for criminal review.
The Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers accepted legal staff recommendations on more than a dozen disciplinary cases during its Jan. 14 meeting, imposing civil penalties in several files, issuing letters of warning or instruction in others, closing multiple complaints and referring a set of recurring unlicensed-activity matters to district attorneys in the appropriate jurisdictions.
Board counsel presented each case in turn and the board voted on counsel's recommendations after brief discussion of the sanctions and, in some matters, whether higher penalties were warranted. Several members said the board has seen a rising volume of expired-license complaints and argued for stiffer penalties to improve…
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