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.
In the spirit of today’s theme, we express our heartfelt gratitude to the remarkable members of the EMS community who go beyond the call every shift
Report and commentary from the North Carolina EMS Expo 2024
5 ways to motivate the unmotivated, and to help those floundering to flourish
A suspect was captured on video stabbing the two victims before bystanders restrained her
Boyd County Sheriff’s Office deputies said that the NetCare employee who had been driving the ambulance kept changing his story
Apply these hiring, management and operational strategies from Walt Disney World to improve the EMS experience for patients and providers
The retiring superintendent discusses leadership, partnership, cooperation and interoperability
Dispatcher Leon Price repeatedly asked the daughter of Diania Kronk whether Kronk would be willing to be transported; she died a day later
When a paramedic attempted to steady the patient, Antwanisha Jones reportedly grabbed the provider’s throat and refused to let go
Dr. John S. Karduck, “Doc,” also served as medical director for more than 30 agencies
The National EMS Advisory Council offers updates on EMS issues from roadway safety to ET3 and COVID response
The role of the leader is to bear witness – to the critical and the mundane – to lighten the load
How my first agency took a young, under-confident, naïve paramedic and made me a clinician
Polk County continues to deny Christina Pierson a $25,000 benefit offered by the state
The public shouldn’t have to roll the dice about their emergency services, wondering who’s going to show up
A crew from the Harvard Fire Protection District were responding to a psychiatric call from the police
Leaders discuss operational survival in the face of EMS challenges
The companies blamed doctors and federal agents; county plaintiffs had sought more than $2.5 billion to go toward abatement efforts
An EMT who spoke Spanish helped put the man at ease during the multi-agency rescue, police said
Kelly D. Titchenell said her mother, Diana L. Kronk, 56, was jaundiced, incoherent and bleeding, but EMS providers were not told to respond
Phillip Shane Bradford avoided being caught for six days and was taken into custody with three other people
Franklin County Prosecutor Shawn Sant determined that responders acted appropriately with Werner Anderson, including the administration of ketamine
The new Austin Travis County EMS chief offers tips for rising leaders
“The problem here is not that the providers were making a diagnosis, it’s what they were doing with the diagnosis”
Researchers have developed a systems-level checklist to address stress and violence affecting fire-based EMS responders
The driver of the truck that crashed with a Malta and McConnellsville Fire Department ambulance was pronounced dead at the scene
The EMS providers were transporting a cardiac arrest patient when their ambulance collided with a police vehicle and overturned
Candice Mangan has been charged with tampering with a consumer product
Vanessa Armstead was rescued from Irondequoit Bay last year, but the ambulance sank
Mario Artze-Ordiales is accused of defrauding the Broward County Aviation Department through car parking vouchers
Baton Rouge police found that the EMS provider who had been driving the ambulance immediately rendered aid and took Kiyana Baskin, 20, to a hospital
Responders are taught about “command presence,” but what about the “quiet presence” that comes with empathy?
James Lavelle Walley apologized Monday after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual battery and two counts of touching a child for lustful purposes
