2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Health Care
Article 40 - Optometrists
§ 12-40-127. Judgments and settlements - reporting

Any final judgment, settlement, or arbitration award against an optometrist for malpractice shall be reported within fourteen days by such optometrist's malpractice insurance carrier in accordance with section 10-1-125, C.R.S., or by such optometrist if no commercial malpractice insurance coverage is involved to the board for review, investigation, and, where appropriate, disciplinary or other action. Any optometrist who knowingly fails to report as required by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars. Such penalty shall be determined and collected in an action brought by the board in the district court in the city and county of Denver, which court shall have exclusive jurisdiction in such matters. All penalties collected pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the general fund.