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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AMR officials claim San Bernardino County supervisors violated state law in awarding contract to lower-scoring CONFIRE
Washington County suit states dispatchers sent law enforcement to crisis calls first before crisis workers
Jeff White, Chief Paramedic at Richmond Lenox Emergency Management Service, has been named as the board president
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The authority of Maine EMS to require COVID-19 and flu vaccinations is challenged in the high court
Escambia County EMS union members say leadership has created an unsafe, toxic environment
Devvan Farina allegedly broke into the homes of patients he knew had been transported to a hospital
Milwaukee aldermen are requesting ambulance companies make it a policy to get out of the rig and look for patients
The Phoenix Fire Department is investigating the death of a patient reportedly dropped by firefighters.
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The judge called the attack on the Orange County crew the most violent attack he had seen without a death involved
Investigators found a dead goose in part of the Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter flight control system
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Cellphone carriers are now required to send first responders based on the location of the caller, rather than the nearest cell tower
Contractor in Boise hangar collapse that killed three had multiple safety violations in the last 10 years
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Curtis Ambulance official defends Milwaukee medics for not getting out of ambulance to look for patient
Officials said the mutual aid system has “repeatedly” pulled Winthrop ambulances into other communities
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The medical director for the Middletown Division of Fire stated the paramedics “breached the standard of care and the breach caused” the death
Coroner’s staff arrived after the Springfield Township paramedics left the scene and found the woman trying to breathe
City Attorney Margaret Casey said medics spent less than 15 seconds assessing Whitfield Marshall Jr.
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Air Evac Lifeteam operations control center lost contact with the crew late Saturday night
Lake County firefighters on two units nearest to the site of the Jan. 4 emergency failed to promptly alert dispatchers they were available to respond, investigation revealed
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