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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Paramedic Shaney Warehime was hospitalized on Feb. 11, after she had stopped breathing
Colorado Springs Paramedic Nicholas Fisher tackled Dizmang and placed him in a headlock
EMT Robert Molesk said he felt intimidated by Erie County deputies when treating Robert A. Metcalf Jr.
A fight between teens on a train turned into a shooting on the platform of a Bronx subway station
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AMR officials claim San Bernardino County supervisors violated state law in awarding contract to lower-scoring CONFIRE
Washington County suit states dispatchers sent law enforcement to crisis calls first before crisis workers
Jeff White, Chief Paramedic at Richmond Lenox Emergency Management Service, has been named as the board president
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The authority of Maine EMS to require COVID-19 and flu vaccinations is challenged in the high court
Escambia County EMS union members say leadership has created an unsafe, toxic environment
Devvan Farina allegedly broke into the homes of patients he knew had been transported to a hospital
Milwaukee aldermen are requesting ambulance companies make it a policy to get out of the rig and look for patients
The Phoenix Fire Department is investigating the death of a patient reportedly dropped by firefighters.
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The judge called the attack on the Orange County crew the most violent attack he had seen without a death involved
Investigators found a dead goose in part of the Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter flight control system
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Cellphone carriers are now required to send first responders based on the location of the caller, rather than the nearest cell tower
Contractor in Boise hangar collapse that killed three had multiple safety violations in the last 10 years
If you’ve seen one community paramedicine program, then you’ve seen one program; here’s how successes from four different programs can be translated to new ones
Is it the providers’ responsibility to stay until the patient can be located? If not, how long is long enough?
Curtis Ambulance official defends Milwaukee medics for not getting out of ambulance to look for patient
Officials said the mutual aid system has “repeatedly” pulled Winthrop ambulances into other communities
Critical insights into the implications of recent court rulings on EMS practice and patient care
The medical director for the Middletown Division of Fire stated the paramedics “breached the standard of care and the breach caused” the death
Coroner’s staff arrived after the Springfield Township paramedics left the scene and found the woman trying to breathe
