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.
On and off-the-record training to teach new leaders how to achieve change, and that in some cases, failure is “OK”
Ask your senators and representative to make Treatment in Place permanent, increase SIREN Act funding, count every EMS provider and extend Medicare add-ons
Members of IMSA’s AMR Safety Team break down the unique opportunity in motorsport medical and rescue response
Joyce Garrard, 49, is trying to prevent jurors from finding out she misled first responders and medical workers about what happened to her granddaughter
Former owner Frank McCourt said that a quality and safe fan experience is a core value of the Dodgers
EMS can’t control the health care finance system, but providers should remain vigilant against fraud in their own business
About 37 operators claimed an average of 50 trips or more per patient, collecting more than $46.5 million from Medicare for non-emergency transports
Chris and Kelly also discuss why two EMTs are being sued by a woman who claims one of the workers improperly removed her teenage daughter’s clothing
He’s accused of falsifying county reimbursement forms for training classes and travel-related expenses
He’s expected to get 3 1/2 years in prison after an unconscious woman woke up to him touching her inappropriately in the back of an ambulance
The patient filed a lawsuit against the hospital and an employee after medical records containing her name, date of birth, hospital ID, diagnosis, testing and test results were leaked on social media
He will serve 27 months for offering kickbacks for fake Medicare ambulance transports
One of the medics faces criminal charges from the Dec. 2 incident
The person to replace retiring Chief Kenneth Ellerbe faces decades of neglect and animosity, but has the power to positively lead a department ripe for change
Field medics relying on inept command staff to promote quality is like an orphan relying on a drunk uncle to raise him right — it’s never going to happen.
The governor signed the bill Thursday and it goes into effect for the 2014-2015 school year
In this week’s podcast, host Kelly Grayson is on location with a live audience from the Connecticut EMS Expo conference
“There is not a day, an hour, a second out of 60 minutes that I don’t think of him,” he told the family of the 21-year-old killed in the accident
First Call settled in a lawsuit that alleges the company up coded billings for transports by seeking reimbursement for unnecessary or never provided ALS services
Carla Hennessey is accused of using a county credit card for personal gain totaling $1,735
Medics were determined liable for giving a mother bad advice about transporting her daughter; this goes against the “special duty” doctrine
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson also discuss the recent story about a televison station accusing EMTs of posing at an accident scene
Carol Miller was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing $240K from the nonprofit; her husband was previously sentenced for three years
Stow’s lawyer sid the Dodgers did not provide adequate security at the stadium when Stow was attacked from behind for wearing a Giants shirt
They look like they’re posing in front of a crashed truck, but the woman who snapped the photo said they were unaware she had taken it
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson also discuss the differences and similarities of EMS in London
Jerry Domidion was placed on paid administrative leave, and his resignation will be effective June 1
“I love my job,” Timothy Greenlee said at the hearing. “I can return to be a better firefighter than I was before my addiction.”
He is back to facing a felony charge for nonfatally strangling his girlfriend after a district court dismissed the charge earlier this month
The worker died in the back of an ambulance after transporting a patient; life-saving efforts performed by the partner were unsuccessful
He still plans to seek a judge seat after a secretly recorded tape of him was released to local news stations
The EMT failed a drug test after an unspecified amount of Demerol went missing from an ambulance
The city’s rebuttal attempts to cast doubt on the report’s methodology, but the consulting firm hired by AMR dismissed the critique as “inaccurate”
