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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Combat staffing shortages, rising operational costs and increasingly complex reporting standards
Eureka Fire-Rescue EMS Manager Shannon McKruit was described as a mom to many in the department
Five Taunton police officers, including the police chief, were stabbed by the suspect after he crashed into a house
News investigation finds that Syracuse hospital emergency departments have wait times high above the national average
Patriot EMS’ former fleet manager and family members used company cards to buy and resell fuel
Dallas Fire-Rescue Paramedic Brad Cox won an appeal of his termination based on self-defense
Debunking unsound research and increasing hospital collaboration to improve outcomes
Broward County firefighter-paramedic Mikael Chaguaceda and the pilot were able to climb out of the burning chopper and onto the roof of the apartment building
An attorney for one of the Aurora officers said, “Mr. McClain died because Paramedic Cooper injected him with 1.7, 1.8 times the ketamine for someone his weight and size.”
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Setting the tone and driving organizational change from the chief’s seat
Experienced paramedics will now start at $27.59 an hour, as opposed to the training wage of $16 an hour
Cassandra Pena-Romero, 27, was shot outside Metropolitan EMS dispatch center where she worked
Three other children exhibited symptoms of opioid intoxication and were treated with Narcan by first responders on scene
Terrance Trent Darby, 34, allegedly drove the ambulance toward a sheriff’s office captain who was setting up stop sticks to assist with ending the chase
10 benefits of attending EMS conferences and learning from your peers
Megan Lynn Pettit was charged with second-degree assault of a Cumberland ambulance crew
Family members say the Medway EMT forced the patient in respiratory distress to walk an “unreasonable distance” to the ambulance before the fall
A detailed look at the actions leaders can take to implement a systems-level plan to protect their members
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Investigators say the report on the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people in 2021 might be completed next year
3 steps to stop staffing problem solving and start reinventing your agency
A majority of first responder agencies lack necessary funds for purchasing equipment and technology
The Beirut incident commander, Dr. Shawky Amine Eddine shares insights from the largest non-nuclear explosion in history
A patient sitting outside a Port St. Lucie hospital got into the ambulance as EMS personnel were inside dropping off a patient
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Peter Zisopoulos repeatedly stabbed Lt. Alison Russo-Elling as she walked from her station to a deli
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is looking into the operations of a fire department that gets it’s named from the 1970s TV show “Emergency!”
BWC footage captures medic telling officers not to lay the suspect facedown in a fatal in-custody investigation
What you do every day for your community is important; how you classify information and report your activities is also important
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- Calif. firefighter disciplined, not fired, over social post claiming he ‘killed’ obese patients