POULSBO — Dr. Narinder Duggal will get a hearing before the state in his effort to get his medical license restored.

The state Medical Quality Assurance Commission scheduled an administrative hearing for Duggal for May 15-20, according to Rick Glein, the commission’s supervising staff attorney.

The decision follows a state appeals court ruling Nov. 22 that the commission wrongfully denied Duggal’s request for a hearing regarding its findings against him — findings that led to him losing his medical license.

Eight former patients accused Duggal of overprescribing medication and/or making sexual advances at his now-defunct Liberty Bay Internal Medicine. Following its investigation into the allegations, the commission determined that Duggal had committed “unprofessional conduct” and, on Jan. 15, 2014, Duggal signed an agreement to voluntarily surrender his license. Twenty days later, Duggal asked that the agreement be withdrawn and requested a hearing at which he could respond to the commission’s findings. According to documents in the case, Duggal was entitled to “the opportunity to defend against these charges.” The state instead accepted the surrender agreement without a hearing.

A Thurston County Superior Court judge upheld the state’s decision on Oct. 9, 2015; the state Court of Appeals ruled for Duggal.

In an earlier interview, Duggal said his accusers were “liars” and that he would be exonerated. Three of those former patients also sued him in Kitsap County Superior Court.

The first case was dismissed when the plaintiff, representing herself after her attorney withdrew, said she wouldn’t be ready to go to trial on the scheduled date.

Both sides in a second lawsuit agreed to dismiss the case “with prejudice,” meaning the lawsuit can’t be refiled. Court documents show that the plaintiff — a law school graduate and certified conflict resolution consultant — had submitted a list of 20 witnesses and 29 evidentiary exhibits only a day earlier.

A third lawsuit, for malpractice, is scheduled for trial on Jan. 17 in Kitsap County Superior Court. Duggal goes to court on Jan. 13 to ask Judge Sally Olsen to exclude as evidence the state Medical Quality Assurance Commission’s findings against him, because he is challenging those findings in a separate hearing.