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.
What happens if EMS providers who use marijuana safely and legally test positive days later in violation of policies?
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EMS clinicians should rely on their assessment and facts when assessing people with a suspected factitious disorder
Cabell County medics were inside a house treating a patient when the man jumped into their rig and drove off
Former paramedic Jeremy Cooper faced up to three years in prison after being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide
Regardless of pushback, providers have a responsibility to put the safety of the patient above all else when on scene
At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021, according to the Associated Press
An AP investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in avoidable deaths
EMT Chastian McWhorter, 26, was killed on April 1 after the ambulance he was in crashed into a semi-truck
Tyler Wenrich, VP of operations at Emergency Services Solutions Inc., was going through a security checkpoint after traveling to Grand Turk on a cruise ship when it was discovered he had ammo
Suit claims that the Air Methods pilot did not do a reconnaissance of the landing zone and flew into power lines
Wethersfield officials, EMS association are at odds over the proposed replacement of Aetna Ambulance
Paramedics placed a backboard on the victim and an officer sat on it while they tried to restrain him
The former Gilbertsville ambulance service chief of operations admitted to using company credit cards for personal purchases
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Independent autopsy of Jameek Lowery counters the state’s cause of death due to cardiac arrest while under the influence of bath salts
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A man led police on a pursuit across two counties before crashing after a PIT maneuver
A firefighter charged with urinating on a medic’s belongings is a sign of a problem left brewing for too long
Coroner’s report states Reginal Payne suffered cardiac arrest after being restrained face down, in the prone position
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Two Newport News firefighters were terminated after an investigation found they ignored protocols
The term has been banned from EMS training with the exception to describe its historical usage
Rialto firefighters stated they were following COVID-19 guidelines when they refused to enter as a patient was in cardiac arrest
DNA from the urine on the medic’s CD player strongly supported it came from a Kansas City firefighter
Emergency care representatives testify about reimbursement, access challenges
Ed Racht and Matt Zavadsky recount their EMS advocacy testimony to the U.S. House Committee
21 Carroll County fire, EMS employees have either quit or been fired in the last 10 months
Two Springfield Township medics have been fired; the fire chief and assistant chief remain on leave
Medway discontinued use of the ambulance service after the patient was forced to walk an “unreasonable distance” to the ambulance
The new law makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail
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