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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Police found an open bottle of wine in the floorboard of Dontre Doxley’s pickup truck
Dustin Shane Cowart told police he was having difficulty sitting still because he thought someone was trying to kill him
The lawsuit claims an Air Methods helicopter went on 51 flights after the company was notified by the FAA that the copter’s pitot tubes were “severely corroded”
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Records showed a 34-minute delay after a caller tried to get help after someone shot out her car’s windshield
Police said Thomas Launderville slurred his words during a radio call as he was driving a patient to the hospital
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Coral Springs firefighter-paramedic Christopher Randazzo was shot dead after refusing to unlock his iPhone
The proposal comes after the Uhrichsville Fire Department put in a competing offer to provide either EMS service or fire and EMS service to the same area
Christoper Edwards was charged with kidnapping a man who later escaped and stole an ambulance
When crews arrived on scene, Caycey Donivan Douglass Dicks became irate and began yelling at responders
Police said the slaying followed an incident hours earlier at a motel in a nearby town
This unfortunate incident is an opportunity to educate law enforcement partners on things like patient restraint, scene safety and policy
More than 2,500 EMTs and paramedics signed onto the lawsuit, which claimed the city never paid them for the half-hour of prep work per shift
Police said the three suspects fled the scene of an attempted homicide in a different county prior to murdering Christopher Allen Randazzo in Broward County
A complaint filed last week says Crystle Galloway died “because of the negligence of four paramedics who failed to properly treat her”
They have agreed to a renegotiated contract that the company said will bump their pay as much as 11.86%
An LAPD sergeant accused EMT Roryce Dirden of assaulting a patient; body-cam footage determined Dirden was acting within the parameters of his job
Paramedics Jeremy Pecoraro Pecoraro and Jon Cinelli were placed on leave following an investigation into missing prescription narcotics
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has not yet identified the suspects arrested or given a motive
“The cost of providing emergency medical services is significantly more than we recoup,” county manager Brian Epley said
Across the U.S., the pharmaceutical industry still faces more than 2,600 other lawsuits over the deadly disaster
The suspect driving the ambulance hit a stroller carrying two 7-month-old twins, who were taken to a hospital with minor injuries
Kenyatta Mwambu, 17, was hit by a Monroeville Volunteer Fire Company No. 4 ambulance in May while crossing a street
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State, local and tribal governments plus hospitals and others have filed a total of more than 2,600 lawsuits against drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies
The victim told officers he used the vehicle to escape the home, where he said he was tortured and kept in a dog cage
Amid the open case, the Broward Sheriff’s Office hasn’t released additional details about the killing
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