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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In this episode of Inside EMS, our co-hosts welcome attorney David C. Holland to talk from a legal perspective about the use of medical marijuana by public safety members
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As part of the agreement, she will resign from the fire department as of Nov. 15; neither she or city officials have admitted wrongdoing
He is licensed to carry a firearm; the gun discharged at an apartment and a man suffered non-life-threatening injuries to his jaw and neck
She alleges she was terminated as a result of a post that criticized how the mayor handled the arrest of a retired firefighter and razing of his home
He’s accused of using gas to sedate women and video recording the assault of a 15-year-old girl
Fire Chief Mark Burdick apologized for language used by firefighters who appear in the video
He faces federal charges after stealing from the department for at least two months
Officials want to hire a local ambulance service to improve response times in neighborhoods, but a complicated court ruling prohibits the city from requesting bids from private companies
One judge insists bigger stores still have a ‘moral obligation’ to provide the emergency equipment
He said he needed a ride, and the ambulance was the first thing he saw parked outside a Houston hospital
The problem is not the high number of family members hired by a department, but the department’s lack of leadership in finding out why
Thieves also made off with medical equipment and ID cards while crews were at a Halloween block party
The city may close a rental unit for certain violations, and the law change aims to make it harder to evict tenants
At least 183 sons of current or former firefighters have served on the force since the start of 2012
They have been cleared to return to the 911 system after they were suspended without pay in the aftermath of Eric Garner’s death while in police custody
The men were painting the structure and fell after their scaffolding failed
Accused of misspending $500K, a failure to appear in court triggered the search
Two EMTs were goofing off during a late night shift and posted a video on Snapchat; the service deletes content once it’s posted but someone recorded it
The agreement establishes job classifications for fire engineer/medic and firefighter/medic, which will bring a 5 percent pay increase
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the pros and cons of putting cameras in the back of rigs, and debate ALS vs. BLS systems
The business owner was denied a “certificate of necessity” license for inter-facility and non-emergency transports; he says it would create competition and save patients money
The lawsuit comes after the plane’s tank was filled with the wrong fuel in a crash that killed the patient, pilot, flight medic and flight nurse
EMS can get emotional; at some point your behavior is bound to hurt those around you, and it will take more than a simple ‘I’m sorry’ to fix things
Healthy conflict challenges the status quo, forces teams to consider different points of view, and results in a high-accountability environment
She claims he inappropriately touched her multiple times on the way to a hospital
The mistake reinforced the department’s lack of confidence in the city’s ability to pay its EMTs and firefighters correctly
The NTSB released a report that relied heavily on the pilot who survived after the helicopter crashed and burst into flames, killing a flight nurse and patient on board
Dash cam captures the police pursuit of an ambulance stolen by a hospital patient as it makes several unpredictable stops
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