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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Crew members updated police with their location and other details as the incident unfolded
Lontavious Johnson, 32, and Andrew Desmond, 31, were charged with assault and battery against police officers in October
Joseph Alphonzo Heinze II, 33, was hired by the fire department in May and is now suspended without pay
Ashley Bermudez stayed on the line with a dispatcher as three men broke into her home
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The lawsuit alleges the EMT and deputies used excessive force and failed to follow law enforcement and EMS guidelines that are meant to prevent in-custody deaths
Kenneth Golightly, 31, threatened ambulance crew members with a knife before stealing the ambulance
The records show drug wholesalers shipped ever-higher doses of the pills, even as the overdose death toll climbed
The victim was stabbed in the chest, back and face in a parking lot after he and his wife sought a ride home after a party
Paramedic Julie Moreland was charged with misdemeanor assault after confronting a co-worker
The patient became combative and grabbed a knife as firefighters attempted to treat him
Christopher Suprun stands by his claim that he was a volunteer firefighter who responded to the Pentagon attack
Hypothermia death of a Minn. teen is an unimaginable tragedy, but a breach is not enough for a finding of negligence
Paramedic Alan Gribben, 51, was last seen Monday by his ambulance partner and relatives
Johnthony Walker was driving between 48 and 52 mph and never hit the brake; the crash killed six children
Robert Duval, 40, got out of his vehicle and into the unattended ambulance so he could move it out of his way
Jason Schneider is accused of inflicting head trauma to his then 4-month-old son
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In his latest bogus 911 call, the teen told dispatchers he had two guns and was going to start killing people in a Walmart
Dr. Stanley Phillips III was killed in a 2013 ambulance crash while transporting a neonatal patient
Officials allege personnel would file a false disability claim, collect a payout and return to work
The parents of Jake Anderson, 19, allege first responders declared their son dead before properly evaluating and transporting him to a hospital
To combat package theft during the holiday season, the agency has offered to have community members have their packages delivered to their station
The suit was filed in 2012 by dozens of women who said they were subjected to strength tests that were not “‘job related’ for the firefighter/EMT position
Before police arrived, Mark Anthony Hicks is heard telling a 911 dispatcher that he “just killed somebody” and he says “I’m so sorry”
After the director of the towns’ ambulance service was charged with embezzlement, municipalities are reconsidering how they want to handle finances
The report stated that Glen Chappell, 67, was driving nearly twice the speed limit when he crashed the bus
A report released in November claimed that Ottawa Paramedic Services has an “ongoing and systemic dispatching problem”
Officials said the ambulance veered off the road into a water-filled ditch and struck some trees
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