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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EMS clinicians should rely on their assessment and facts when assessing people with a suspected factitious disorder
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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Sacramento City FD Battalion Chief Erik Saari on creating positive pathways for all members to contribute to the department
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
ACLU California Action and others say the bill would unfairly target certain patients
The man will serve two years for sexually assaulting two patients while working for AMR
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An AMR supervisor rolled down his window to ask if a man standing in the road was okay; the man approached the ambulance and “began throwing himself at the window, gaining access to the ambulance”
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