Toms v. Bureau of Professional & Occupational Affairs

OPINION BY Judge COHN.

This is an appeal from an order of the State Board of Funeral Directors (Board) in which a funeral director was fined and his license suspended because of his professional misconduct. The finding of professional misconduct was based on the funeral director’s retrieving a decedent from a hospital and embalming the body without the written authorization of the next-of-kin, followed by his threatening to withhold the body from family members unless they paid his embalming fee. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the Board’s decision.

The case sub judice arises from…