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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“I am not willing to give our health for him,” Sacramento Firefighter Timothy John Keyes wrote on Facebook, according to a disciplinary letter
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She said the bureau will undergo “restructuring to meet the modern-day needs of EMS and the needs of a new generation of EMS providers”
The NREMT and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security are investigating Muncie Fire Department staffers
The FDNY veteran also volunteered with the Huntington Community First Aid Squad on Long Island, where her namesake street is
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Video evidence from the 2021 scene reportedly captured a provider saying, “She gave her the whole d*** thing . . . She wasn’t supposed to give her that much.”
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Bradley Doyle pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, including the new additions
Advocating for “a little bit more money, a little bit more protection and a little bit more rights for EMS providers”
“It was a great career ... I hope I made a difference,” said Ron Romano. “Every day is now going to be Saturday”
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The woman described to investigators how he beat her, controlled their relationship and frightened her father
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Robert Gala was found guilty of multiple crimes committed during his public safety career; his father, Deputy Chief Michael Gala, described the son’s addiction
Madelene Smith’s suit says firefighters told her to drive her husband, Hugh Max Smith Jr., who later died after suffering a brain injury from a lack of oxygen
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EMS Chief Ronald Romano began his EMS career in 1975 with Perman Ambulance Service in Pittsburgh and was later hired by the city in 1978
Officials said EMT Elaina McAlister’s injuries forced her to medically retire
The suspension “was a little surprising and a bit demoralizing,” said Marcy Trubshaw, Eagle Point captain and EMS service director
Chief Joshua Vance said Christopher Lee Linn showed up at scenes, then joined the Wharncliffe VFD on a provisional basis and was not to go on calls
One Bassett Volunteer Rescue Squad member was flown to a hospital, and two others were transported by ground ambulance
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A fellow Pro Care EMS employee and an SUV driver were killed in the head-on collision
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Documents show Kansas City’s civil rights department investigated and substantiated her complaints that her supervisor “taunted and terrorized her”
Giovanna Vittori filed her discrimination lawsuit in 2018; later that year, she died from a medication overdose at 38
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