Legal Issues
The legal issues topic contains news and information about legal issues affecting EMS personnel, agencies or departments. Find the latest news from personnel misconduct, to disciplinary and harassment cases, to malpractice lawsuits, as well as advice to prevent legal action with EMS training, documentation and management.
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The company has over 700 employees who will decide who they want to be represented by in collective bargaining
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When the woman got out of the ambulance, she got into a fight with a pursuing police officer
Authorities are seeking a murder warrant against Joseph Anthony Scott, 24, who is being held in jail following the attack
Reinstating the Illinois Public Duty law may be warranted, but not because of the case that led to it being abolished by the state Supreme Court
The long-awaited rule mandates that all health care providers receiving Medicare reimbursement return identified overpayments within 60-days or face Federal False Claims Act liability
The law will help reduce the time it takes to get the critical medication to a person having an anaphylactic reaction
Fairfax Underground curator Carey Weidemann said he thought Chief Bowers’ statements were a “deflection of blame”
The “public duty rule” provides responders broad immunity from lawsuits stemming from their on-the-job actions
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Our co-hosts talk about the tragedy and disgrace of bullying after the death of firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff
An ambulance crew is suspended without pay after a news crew plays highway “gotcha”
A new jury will decide if Patricia Del Vecchio was the victim of disability discrimination and retaliation when she was fired in 2009
Sam Conkel, 24, was arraigned on sexual battery and gross sexual imposition charges
The ambulance was going almost 90 miles per hour, well over the posted speed limit
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The Drug Supply Chain Security Act mandates pharmaceutical tracking, tracing and documentation for EMS agencies
The Public Safety Officer’s Benefit Program has left some first responders or their families waiting for years to get payments
Robert Gotay told police he had a severe gambling problem and admitted writing checks to himself from the ambulance organization’s account
Steven Farnsworth was charged with official misconduct and unauthorized use of a computer; he’s also facing domestic violence charges
Leadership of the organization should make the decision that grant funding is a revenue development strategy that makes sense for the organization as a whole
A grand jury handed down indictments against Dustin Hazlewood for illegally obtaining fentanyl and morphine
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The significant funding, workforce and leadership challenges facing rural EMS agencies were discussed at National Rural EMS Conference
John “Darrell” Hamilton, 58, died almost two years ago after collapsing down stairs with chest pains; his family claims that crews “left him for dead”
The family of a man who died from congestive heart failure said he may have lived had two employees not stopped efforts to resuscitate him
Chief Richard Bowers said his focus at the moment is on Nicole Mittendorff’s grieving family and colleagues, but that he has zero-tolerance for bullying
The suicide of Nicole Mittendorff causes us to ask the question: What is the impact of bullying on emergency responder mental health and suicide?
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