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 we have is a shortage of people who are willing to work under horrible conditions for chump change and be unappreciated”
“The most useful books that I’ve read from the perspective of practicing medicine are non-medical books.”
The concept of wellness encompasses the whole body, and leaders play a role in supporting the physical, mental and emotional needs of first responders
The lawsuit alleges that since the fees are improperly imposed, residents will “continue the undue hardship and financial burden of defending their rights against” the law firm
The Senate wants more time to study the issue and other provisions passed by the House as part of the workers’ compensation budget
A.J. Isaacs was an EMS captain and had been with the fire department for 25 years before dying of an overdose
Bryan Matthew Cooney, 30, will be under 30 years of supervised release after his prison term
Fund advocates say Sen. Mitch McConnell committed to scheduling a vote in August to renew the fund before it expires
A department spokesperson said the paramedics, who were inside the hospital when the ambulance was taken, did not deviate from procedures
The DeKalb County commission voted to extend its contract with an ambulance provider that has faced criticism for years that it responds too slowly to emergency situations
Port Jervis Fire Department Firefighter Nicholas McKeon was sleeping in front of the bay doors and was killed after being struck by an ambulance responding to a call
Kris Kaull relates his most memorable call, and how practice, and a mindset to control what you can allows EMS providers to provide help and calm during the chaos
Port Jervis Fire Department Firefighter Nicholas McKeon was asleep in front of the bay door when the ambulance struck him on its way out
Many of the problems trace back to the lack of clear state rules for determining who is selected to provide emergency transport services and how they are vetted
The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought by the employee and joined by the federal government and doesn’t require Hart to Heart to admit liability
The bill would have required air ambulance companies that operate subscription services to enter into reciprocity agreements
A hands-on patient assessment must be performed to declare a victim dead, even at a potential crime scene
Lawyers representing the plaintiffs across the country laid out a framework for negotiating a settlement, which could mean these communities getting billions of dollars to split
The paramedics immediately radioed for help from police but wrestled the gun away from the man on their own
The United New York Ambulance Network fears the bill will hurt the ambulance industry, while fire departments are looking to recoup the costs of medical calls
In addition to his jail sentence, Donald Horner forfeits his EMT certification and must reimburse the insurance companies
Medics had declared the infant dead and an active crime scene was established before the hoax was discovered
The ambulance later was found unoccupied on Cebra Avenue near Chester Place, according to a spokesman for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information
Act 7 requires PDE to provide a curriculum to schools to teach hands-only CPR, a no-breath, compression-only technique recommended by the American Heart Association for sudden cardiac arrests
Police bodycam footage shows gunfire exchange that led to the death of Wisconsin Firefigher Mitchell Lundgaard
The prosecutor described a scene that quickly changed from a routine medical call to a chaotic, dangerous situation with multiple shots being fired by Houston and by officers trying to deal with the threat he posed
Our co-hosts discuss the three techniques EMS providers should use to determine if a patient has the mental capacity to decline medical treatment
A Graham man is suing Alamance County, Alamance County EMS and an ambulance driver for medical expenses over a crash with an ambulance in 2016
Paul Tarashuk was having schizophrenic episode when he was picked up by police on Interstate 95 and dropped off at the nearest gas station
Rescue 14 is taking an aggressive approach to getting money it is owed by filing theft complaints against patients who keep payments from their insurance company intended for the ambulance service
Jesse Board alleges that on multiple occasions he reported his peers were not responding to emergency calls and his employers failed to act
Michael Senisch, a certified Reiki practitioner, performed the Japanese healing technique during a call
The lawsuit alleged that Century Station, which handled the 911 calls, provided poor training to its deputies and had failed annual inspections
