Emergency Medical Services

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Marshall Dennehey attorneys have a history and reputation for excellence in defending Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies and their individual providers in all manner of litigation, including:

  • Pre-hospital malpractice cases.
  • Emergent and non-emergent stretcher and wheelchair cases.
  • Motor vehicle accident cases involving ambulances and other first responder vehicles.

We are familiar with the unique and nuanced EMS laws and regulations in the states where we practice, including those laws designed to protect first responders, some of which provide for higher standards to prove negligence. We also represent EMS clients before various governmental agencies in credentialing and licensing issues.

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Robin B. Snyder, Chair
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William L. Banton Jr.,
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Dismissal of all claims on the eve of trial where EMT plaintiff’s demand was $10 million.

Emergency Medical Services
Health Care Liability

The plaintiff was an Emergency Medicine Technician who was severely assaulted during an ambulance transport of a minor patient to a psychiatric facility. The client-physician had discharged the minor patient with orders for sedation and restraints, if needed, during transport. The plaintiff alleged these discharge orders were insufficient and violated standard of care. Our attorneys successfully argued that under Pennsylvania’s Mcare Act our client-physician did not owe a duty to the plaintiff-EMT, only to the minor patient.

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