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.
While chaotic situations can turn many things upside down, they can provide an opportunity to reflect on current processes
The staffing of captains Felicia Barnes, Emily Murphy and Katja Lancing marked the first time all three captain positions at one station were held by women
A poll of nearly 600 EMS1 readers found that a stunning majority are in favor of providers being able to use medical marijuana if their state allows
The teen, diagnosed with schizophrenia, struck man with a brick and then stole an ambulance, which she later crashed
A total of 7 local first responders have been fired regarding their questionable Black Lives Matter social media posts
The vehicle was stolen while Dallas Fire Rescue was dealing with a crash involving a pedestrian
Destiny McNeil is charged with stealing an ambulance and leading police on a chase in 2015
The wife of a Florida paramedic reported the theft and believed the medications were intended to poison her
The infant’s parents refuse to allow tests to be conducted to deduce if she is brain dead
Proposal expands definition of a hate crime to police, but inclusion of EMTs and firefighters is unclear
A firefighter wrote Black Lives Matters protesters blocking the interstate “WILL get run over!”
The suit, which spawned a four-year court battle, came after two paramedics delayed proper treatment of a 76-year-old woman in cardiac arrest
Firefighter Tim McClanahan, 46, was cared for by the flight paramedic after he fell during a training exercise
Chris Cebollero and Greg Friese, MS, NRP, discuss EMS MCI response lessons learned from protests turned violent in Ferguson and Dallas
Here are the five EMS documentation mistakes that deny patients coverage they deserve and EMS agencies fair compensation for their services
Having an engaged, committed workforce is the best way to improve patient care
The EMT jumped out of the moving vehicle unharmed
Immersion in cynicism takes a toll on the mind, body and spirit and those who sense their values slipping to often get off the ambulance and onto a fire company
‘Truly colossal’ quantities of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy were found in the fake ambulances
Police suspect illegal fireworks explosion responsible for girl’s hand amputation and blast injuries to her face
Our concern for personal and partner safety needs to extend from scene safety to off-duty safety from intimate partner violence and abuse
Tesla and government statements say Joshua D. Brown, 40, was killed May 7 in Florida, when his Tesla’s cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky
EMT Ashley Scott, allegedly killed by her husband, will be laid to rest this evening
Brad Reiter will face two to six years for first-degree grand larceny
Patrick Riccardi-O’Connor originally told police that his friend shot himself, but later admitted to accidentally shooting firefighter David Atherton
When a man approached ambulance crew members at the station, the crew notified dispatch
Here are four takeaways from The New York Times investigation into the failed private equity investments and mismanagement of EMS businesses
The service claims the officer pulled them over for no apparent reason, other than to intimidate and threaten
Officials said Ashley Scott’s husband, a part-time EMT, will be charged with her murder
The man watched his wife stumble out the front door to a neighbor’s house as she collapsed in pool of her own blood
Sunday’s incident comes less than two weeks after the woman led police on a chase in a stolen ambulance that went through the city
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