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.
How solving peoples’ problems creates value in community building
For the most part, we generally like to be led by those whom we admire, respect and have confidence in
Our cohosts are joined by Jeff Hensley, emergency manager for MedTrust Medical Transport in South Carolina, to discuss the position
Paramedic Cole Worley, who is married to a doctor, faces 15 criminal charges related to false prescriptions for Adderall
Chief Anthony Campbell told the media Friday that the surge of synthetic marijuana overdoses, which gripped the city for more than 24 hours, seem to have calmed down
Anniston EMS sued Oxford EMS, claiming the agency’s leaders “interfered with contracts and/or business relations” of Anniston EMS
Near-miss reporting can help build a culture of safety in your agency and improve the EMS profession as a whole
Positive beginning and ending patient interactions fall into the “serial positioning effect” and can boost patient care reviews
The paramedic crew was responding to a medical emergency when thieves broke into their ambulance and stole a purse and keys, along with medical supplies
Natasha Michelle Scott allegedly led police on a chase that reached 90 miles per hour before she was captured a half-hour later with the use of a spike strip
Patient-centered care partnerships with patients and family need to start at the top
Three suspects forced a 44-year-old FDNY EMT at gunpoint into his car after his shift
Allegations of false education credits being awarded to SFD paramedics prompted an investigation by city and state officials
Steven Snively and Christopher Marchant were fired from the Hamilton Paramedic Service after being criminally charged with failure to provide necessities of life
Our co-hosts discuss a recent article that raises the question of personal liability for EMS workers
Position statements from our national leadership are helpful, but we must make culture change ourselves
The EMS crew found Thien Nguyen, who was suspected of breaking into a store, after he fell off of his bicycle
Jumaane Williams was sentenced to time served after blocking an ambulance during a protest over the detention of a prominent immigration rights activist
Federal investigators said the plane had been repaired three times in the six weeks before it crashed Nov. 2016, killing four people
Officials said Pamela Cash grew impatient while waiting for relatives to pick her up and decided to drive home in the ambulance
The city of Paterson will pay $166,666 in retroactive checks to 33 EMTs, which covers pay raises the EMTs claimed they could have received from 2003 to 2007
Police said Curtis Collman II not only refused to call 911 to try and save his son, but threatened others who tried to call for help as the boy overdosed on meth
Officials said the man chased paramedics with an ax, rammed a van into an ambulance, then tried to steal the ambulance
Melissa Hall claims she was fired after reporting to officials that “she was asked to do things she believed in good faith to be unethical and unlawful”
The woman allegedly bit a paramedic tending to injuries on her finger after she wrecked her car near her house
Steven Snively and Christopher Marchant were arrested and charged with failing to provide the necessities of life after Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot
Jacqueline Wein was sentenced 15 months to three years in state prison for biting the hand of a paramedic who was helping to transport her
Hillsborough County will reopen its review of four paramedics facing discipline in the case of a stroke patient who died, saying it needs to know more
A police investigation fully cleared EMS of Georgia of any wrongdoing after a woman accused the agency of a hit-and-run
A Hillsborough County Administrator said the paramedics violated three areas of standard procedure
Police sergeant challenges and educates EMS leaders to do more to reduce the risk and occurrence of sexual harassment for all employees
NFPA 3000 is a framework for preparing EMS agencies, fire departments, other responders and communities for active shooter incident response and recovery
Jay Fitch, Ph.D., tells Pinnacle leaders that collaboration with colleagues and frenemies is critical to greater operational success
