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.
Public safety leaders need to evaluate the impact of executive orders, policy pronouncements and a temporary freeze on grants on their departments and communities
The primary goal of mental wellness check-ins is to provide public safety employees with increased quality of life as well as tools to manage their response to stress and trauma
Here is an action plan for assessing the impact of the Trump administration’s temporary freeze on federally funded grants and a federal judge blocking that order
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Medics waited 13 minutes for law enforcement due to an address “blacklist” while William Yurek was having a heart attack
Police officers used spike strips to stop one of the ambulances
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According to the affidavit, the EMT said Gabriel Trujillo raped her while she was napping in the back of their ambulance
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MEDIC EMS becomes part of Scott County as consolidation process continues
Six members of Tri-Hospital EMS were honored for their contributions to EMS and their community
Eureka Fire-Rescue EMS Manager Shannon McKruit was described as a mom to many in the department
Five Taunton police officers, including the police chief, were stabbed by the suspect after he crashed into a house
News investigation finds that Syracuse hospital emergency departments have wait times high above the national average
Patriot EMS’ former fleet manager and family members used company cards to buy and resell fuel
Dallas Fire-Rescue Paramedic Brad Cox won an appeal of his termination based on self-defense
Debunking unsound research and increasing hospital collaboration to improve outcomes
Broward County firefighter-paramedic Mikael Chaguaceda and the pilot were able to climb out of the burning chopper and onto the roof of the apartment building
An attorney for one of the Aurora officers said, “Mr. McClain died because Paramedic Cooper injected him with 1.7, 1.8 times the ketamine for someone his weight and size.”
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Experienced paramedics will now start at $27.59 an hour, as opposed to the training wage of $16 an hour
Cassandra Pena-Romero, 27, was shot outside Metropolitan EMS dispatch center where she worked
Three other children exhibited symptoms of opioid intoxication and were treated with Narcan by first responders on scene
Terrance Trent Darby, 34, allegedly drove the ambulance toward a sheriff’s office captain who was setting up stop sticks to assist with ending the chase
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Megan Lynn Pettit was charged with second-degree assault of a Cumberland ambulance crew
Family members say the Medway EMT forced the patient in respiratory distress to walk an “unreasonable distance” to the ambulance before the fall
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Investigators say the report on the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people in 2021 might be completed next year