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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21 Carroll County fire, EMS employees have either quit or been fired in the last 10 months
Two Springfield Township medics have been fired; the fire chief and assistant chief remain on leave
Medway discontinued use of the ambulance service after the patient was forced to walk an “unreasonable distance” to the ambulance
The new law makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail
ACLU California Action and others say the bill would unfairly target certain patients
The man will serve two years for sexually assaulting two patients while working for AMR
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An AMR supervisor rolled down his window to ask if a man standing in the road was okay; the man approached the ambulance and “began throwing himself at the window, gaining access to the ambulance”
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Resiliency training and a CISM program laid a foundation for the Richmond Ambulance Authority to support its providers’ mental health
The jury found that Matthew Plote, a former Illinois volunteer firefighter, killed Melissa Lamesch before setting her house on fire
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The lawsuit claims the Nuvance ambulance EMTs were not trained nor capable of providing proper care, treatment and monitoring
Regardless of why an error happened, the focus should be on preventing any future errors, supporting the provider’s remediation plan and helping them move on
Suspect Jaremy Smith has been identified as the driver of Paramedic Machado-Fore’s car after it was found in New Mexico
St. Paul Firefighter Kenneth Zepeda had applied pressure to the neck of a combative patient
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It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, but it happened during a training with the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad
Jamey Noel, co-founder of New Chapel Fire/EMS and former Clark County sheriff, is facing 25 felony charges for theft, public corruption, tax evasion and ghost employment
The 19-year-old continued to assert he was an EMT even after police and Wake County EMS arrived at the scene
The ambulance was stolen shortly after the medic crew arrived at a call regarding a potential psychiatric patient
Columns in the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people did not meet 1980s standards
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