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Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Disposition For Paramedics For Gross Negligence Claim Under EMSA

December 11, 2025

Plaintiff sued defendants, alleging that they failed to provide appropriate emergency medical services to plaintiff’s decedent, Dale Wehner. Defendants moved for summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(7) and (10), arguing,among other things, that plaintiff’s claims were barred by the statutory i[...]

Widower Intends To Sue Phoenix Fire Department For Failure To Transport Wife By Ambulance To Hospital

December 7, 2022

Widower Sues Fire Department For Failure To Transport Wife: The surviving husband of a 53-year-old woman who had been suffering from COVID-19 for weeks when she suddenly took a turn for the worse and was experiencing shortness of breath and a pounding heart, called 911 and asked the operator to send[...]

Federal Appellate Court Finds Chicago Not Responsible For Alleged Sexual Abuse By Paramedic

May 31, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated February 2, 2022: “Kylie DiDonato was seriously injured when she fell and hit her head in Tim Panatera’s bathroom. DiDonato later invoked § 1983 and alleged that Pa[...]

Nearly $50M California Verdict Against Ambulance Company For Brain Injury Leading To Vegetative State

November 1, 2021

The Fresno Bee reported on October 5, 2021 that a Fresno County, California jury has awarded a 39-year-old man and his wife nearly $50 million ($39.8 million for past economic losses, future economic losses, medical expenses, and pain and suffering sustained by the man and an additional $10 million [...]

Maryland Court Of Appeals Finds No Gross Negligence By Baltimore City Paramedics, Overturns $3.7M Verdict

August 17, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on August 16, 2019 that the two Baltimore City paramedics who were the defendants in a Baltimore wrongful death action “were not grossly negligent in t[...]

$6M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Paramedic For Wrongful Death

October 13, 2017

On September 26, 2017, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded over $6 million to the estate of a 20-year-old woman who died seven days after giving birth to a premature baby, after finding that the paramedic who transported the woman from home to the hospital failed to properly intubate her o[...]

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