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.
The books were used to illustrate key concepts, support the speaker’s principles or to call on other leaders to be lifelong learners
Firefighter/EMT-turned-attorney Steve Wirth addressed the criminalization of medical errors in cases like the Elijah McClain trial
In this episode, our co-hosts discuss EMS1 columnist Todd Bowman’s latest article focused on building confidence in new providers
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
Crystal Blevins accused the chief and others of inappropriate behavior; Jeffersontown Fire Department said it has taken appropriate action
In this episode, our co-hosts break down bodycam video from the City of Dallas after a patient died while in police custody during a Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulance transport
Under Dr. John Gallagher, 92 employees left the roughly 200-person Sedgwick County EMS, causing ambulance shutdowns and reduced response times
We need our legislators to enact laws that focus on the real issues of reimbursement, enabling ET3 and recognizing EMS as an essential service
A Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesperson said the paramedics were placed on administrative leave before the police department released body cam video
Conrad John Sunde IV works for the Duluth Fire Department; state and federal boards will determine whether his licenses should be suspended or revoked
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