The Poland doctor convicted of leaving the scene of a 2015 fatal boating crash on Berlin Reservoir has had his medical license reinstated by the State Medical Board of Ohio.

Dr. Joseph Yurich had his medical license suspended for one year and also sentenced to ten days in jail in July of 2017 after being convicted of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident. 

His license will be returned to an active status on February 3. 

Yurich's speedboat hit a fishing boat around midnight on May 9, 2015, on Berlin Lake. The man in the fishing boat, Neal Cuppett of Akron, died. Another man in Cuppett's boat was injured.

As part of the sentence handed down by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin, Yurich was also placed on house arrest for 90 days with electronic monitoring, given five years of probation, and was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, performing medical services for those that need it.

Yurich was also ordered to take a mandatory course to maintain his boating license.

Authorities believed Yurich was intoxicated at the time of the incident, but Judge John Durkin ruled the blood and urine samples taken from Yurich couldn't be used because they were not refrigerated before being analyzed.

Yurich settled a wrongful death negligence suit filed by Cuppett's estate.