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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Solid EMS providers can often de-escalate an aggravated patient, but the very best providers can keep the patient from ever becoming agitated
“As a volunteer agency, I want to make sure when someone calls 911 in our district, that our ambulances are ready to roll out the door when the tones go off.”
The Contra Costa County firefighter and AMR paramedic were shot while responding to a medical emergency Saturday night
Prosecutors said Thomas Elmore Jr. fatally shot Tamara Naish, who was a nurse, and let her body sit for “at least 36 hours”
The driver of the car that collided with the Prisma Ambulance was charged with DUI; the crew sustained minor injuries
The EMS director said the pins are meant “as a reminder to us and our patients that we are committed to providing compassionate, culturally sensitive, and socially equitable care”
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Eddie Kemp, a captain with Bay County EMS, was one of 38 people arrested as part of “Operation Watchdog”
Officials say the paramedic suffered a concussion during the assault following a vehicle crash
The driver of the vehicle that rear-ended the ambulance is accused of driving under the influence
The firefighter-EMT was arrested while coming off duty on Friday morning
Mobile County EMS Executive Director Mark Turner said a request for the sheriff’s department was canceled after the patient initially calmed down
EMT Keiran Rosas said the paperwork he needs for his paramedic studies is irreplaceable
Officials say the patient produced a firearm at the hospital, demanded the crew give up the ambulance and then led officers on a pursuit
St. Paul police said the Allina Health ambulance was carrying a patient at the time of the crash
The two EMTs were accused of lying about the patient assaulting them and had their licenses suspended by the state Office of EMS
The investigation at St. Petersburg Fire Rescue concluded weeks after a Polk County paramedic and captain were arrested in a separate vaccine theft case
Prosecutors said Michael Greenhaw, 43, put patients in danger when he stole the fentanyl and replaced it with saline
Police arrested a local man who had been unhappy with the healthcare he received there, officials said
First responders were accused of negligence after Paul Tarashuk was left at a gas station by a deputy and then struck by a car in 2018
Worcester police officials announced this week that they have completed their investigation into the video posted on Facebook in July
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Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said the video appears to show the man in “the throes of a seizure”
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An internal investigation by the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department cleared the expelled firefighters of misconduct and raised criticism of the training center’s policies
The plaintiff sued the officers, paramedics and others involved in the incident, claiming he suffered complications after receiving the sedative
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FDNY EMS Local 2507 President Oren Barzilay called the release of the suspect without charges “unacceptable”
Prosecutors say Jonathan Arredondo, the former president of Nutley Emergency and Rescue Squad, ran up more than $30,000 in personal expenses on a squad-issued debit card
The St. Petersburg Police Department launched an investigation into St. Petersburg Fire Rescue after the vaccines went missing
A man is facing charges after posting a video of himself passed out behind the wheel in Times Square — just to get thousands of views
FDNY Chief of EMS Operations Lillian Bonsignore called the attack at the scene of a three-alarm fire “unbelievable and despicable”
