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.
Ask your senators and representative to make Treatment in Place permanent, increase SIREN Act funding, count every EMS provider and extend Medicare add-ons
Members of IMSA’s AMR Safety Team break down the unique opportunity in motorsport medical and rescue response
Quality improvement and the STAR method of decision making
He was found with supplies that included bed sheets and towels, 47 latex gloves, oxygen tubing, pulse oximeters, 15 packages of lubricant and a bloody syringe
Chris and Kelly also talk about the 911 dispatcher who has come under fire for her brusque replies to a woman who called to report a rape
The events we experienced early in our career can now help us empathize with those going through similar situations
They’re suspected of selling $500,000 worth of ambulances and EMS property between 2008 to 2012, and using the money for something other than the nonprofit squad
He was quickly hustled into a hallway when lawyers showed a video of the two men who went to prison for beating him
The board made 27 recommendations to prevent future disasters; most of the fault lies with Asiana and its pilots
The ruling signals an end to a wrongful death lawsuit alleging Target was liable for a customer’s cardiac arrest death because it didn’t have one of the devices
“Ma’am, you’re going to have to quit crying so I can get the information from you,” she said
The filmmaker said he had permission shoot footage of an oil rig accident on an ambulance ride along; the ambulance company says he didn’t and is taking him to court to prevent its use
Regardless of the law, there most likely will be a community expectation to render care when a person is in need
Chris and Kelly also discuss why Medicare officials are temporarily blocking Philadelphia-area ambulance companies from becoming eligible for reimbursements
Stow’s attorneys have argued this has no bearing on the case, and say the attack that left him brain damaged resulted from inadequate security and lighting
Mark Powell was sentenced to 3 1/2 years behind bars; a 22-year-old unconscious woman said she woke up to him touching her
Medicare officials temporarily blocked any new Philadelphia-area ambulance companies from becoming eligible for Medicare payments
The attorney general’s investigators believe that nearly $500,000 was misspent between 2008 and 2012 by members of the nonprofit organization
Joyce Garrard, 49, is trying to prevent jurors from finding out she misled first responders and medical workers about what happened to her granddaughter
Former owner Frank McCourt said that a quality and safe fan experience is a core value of the Dodgers
EMS can’t control the health care finance system, but providers should remain vigilant against fraud in their own business
About 37 operators claimed an average of 50 trips or more per patient, collecting more than $46.5 million from Medicare for non-emergency transports
Chris and Kelly also discuss why two EMTs are being sued by a woman who claims one of the workers improperly removed her teenage daughter’s clothing
He’s accused of falsifying county reimbursement forms for training classes and travel-related expenses
He’s expected to get 3 1/2 years in prison after an unconscious woman woke up to him touching her inappropriately in the back of an ambulance
The patient filed a lawsuit against the hospital and an employee after medical records containing her name, date of birth, hospital ID, diagnosis, testing and test results were leaked on social media
He will serve 27 months for offering kickbacks for fake Medicare ambulance transports
One of the medics faces criminal charges from the Dec. 2 incident
The person to replace retiring Chief Kenneth Ellerbe faces decades of neglect and animosity, but has the power to positively lead a department ripe for change
Field medics relying on inept command staff to promote quality is like an orphan relying on a drunk uncle to raise him right — it’s never going to happen.
The governor signed the bill Thursday and it goes into effect for the 2014-2015 school year
In this week’s podcast, host Kelly Grayson is on location with a live audience from the Connecticut EMS Expo conference
“There is not a day, an hour, a second out of 60 minutes that I don’t think of him,” he told the family of the 21-year-old killed in the accident