Joseph Israel Berger

The Member, a Registered Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for submitting false claims to her employer's group benefit plan for non-medical products.

The Member admitted to the allegations through an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct by contravening standards of practice, misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 3-month suspension, and terms and conditions including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for submitting false claims to her employer's group benefit plan.

The Member admitted to submitting 15 claims totaling $9,471 and receiving non-medical products, of which approximately $2,000 was inappropriate.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 3-month suspension, and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims to her employer's group benefit plan between 2014 and 2016.

The member received reimbursement for non-medical products and split proceeds of false invoices with a colleague who orchestrated the scheme.

The Discipline Committee accepted an agreed statement of facts and a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario alleged that the member committed professional misconduct by submitting false claims to her employer's group benefit plan.

The member admitted to the allegations, acknowledging she submitted claims for products she did not receive and received products not covered by the plan, totalling $2,325.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the member committed professional misconduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $2,710 to her employer's group benefit plan in exchange for non-medical products.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found that the Member contravened standards of practice, misappropriated property, falsified records, and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension of her certificate of registration, and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $4,855 to her employer's group benefit plan for medical products she did not receive.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting $2,600 in false claims to her employer's benefit plan for orthopaedic footwear, wrist braces, and compression stockings.

The Member used two physicians' stamps without their knowledge or authorization to create false prescriptions for herself and her spouse.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order, finding the Member committed professional misconduct.

The Member was ordered to receive an oral reprimand, serve a 4-month suspension, attend meetings with a regulatory expert, and notify employers of the decision for 12 months.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for submitting false claims totaling $2,280 to her employer's group benefit plan and using a physician's stamp without authorization to support those claims.

The matter proceeded by way of an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, a four-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms, conditions, and limitations including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $2,000 to his employer's group benefit plan.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found that the Member contravened standards of practice, misappropriated property, falsified records, and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 3-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration, including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling approximately $5,130 to her employer's benefit plan.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 4-month suspension, and terms and conditions on her certificate of registration.

The member, a registered practical nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $3,240 to his employer-funded benefit plan for back braces and shoe modifications that were not received.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including misappropriation of property, falsifying records, and disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the member's certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims for physiotherapy services under his employer's benefit plan totaling at least $13,940 over an eight-year period.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order.

The Member was found guilty of professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The penalty included an oral reprimand, a four-month suspension of his certificate of registration, and terms requiring meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification for 12 months.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims for custom-made orthotics and orthopedic shoes to her employer's benefit plan, receiving $1,250 in reimbursement.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable conduct.

A Joint Submission on Order was accepted, resulting in a reprimand, a 4-month suspension, and conditions on her certificate of registration.

Two appellants, both found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder and incapable of consenting to medical treatment under provincial law, appealed detention orders imposed by the Ontario Review Board.

The central issue was whether an accused person incapable of consenting to medical treatment could nonetheless consent to a condition regarding psychiatric or other treatment under section 672.55(1) of the Criminal Code.

The Court of Appeal held that the capacity required to consent to such a condition differs from the capacity required to consent to the treatment itself.

An accused need only understand information relevant to the operation of the condition and appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of agreeing to it, including potential consequences for liberty.

The Court overruled its prior jurisprudence to the contrary and allowed the appeals, remitting the matters back to the Board for re-hearing.

The appellant, Mildred Micah, appealed two decisions of the Consent and Capacity Board.

The first decision confirmed the validity of a Community Treatment Order (CTO) issued in respect of Ms. Micah.

The second dismissed an application to review a finding that Ms. Micah lacked the capacity to consent to treatment under a Community Treatment Plan (CTP), due to a six-month time limit prescribed by the Health Care Consent Act, 1996.

The court reviewed the Board's interpretation of the time limit on a standard of reasonableness, concluding that the Board's decision was reasonable and correct, as the term "treatment" consistently includes a CTP for both review applications and time limits.

The court also found the Board's conclusion that all statutory criteria for the CTO were met to be reasonable, based on evidence that Ms. Micah would likely suffer substantial mental deterioration without the CTO.

Both appeals were dismissed.

The Crown appealed a disposition of the Ontario Review Board regarding Bartosz Gajewski, raising two grounds: (1) that a condition allowing indirectly supervised or unaccompanied entry into the community for up to seven days was unreasonable and did not protect public safety, and (2) that the Board's failure to include the victim's father (J.N.) in a 500-metre boundary condition was unreasonable.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the first ground, finding the Board's disposition reasonably supported by the evidence and noting that the Crown had not opposed the condition at the hearing.

The Court allowed the second ground in part, ordering that J.N. be included in the 500-metre boundary condition.

The appellant appealed a disposition of the Ontario Review Board ordering his continued detention at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.

The appellant, found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for assault, argued that he had reached a treatment impasse at Waypoint and sought an independent assessment and transfer to a less secure facility.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, finding that the evidence did not substantiate the existence of a treatment impasse and that the Board's decision to maintain detention at Waypoint was well-supported by evidence regarding the appellant's risk to public safety, including his history of water intoxication, threats to staff, and previous elopement from other facilities.