Fire Law Blog Fire Service and Public Safety Legal Issues Blog by Curt Varone
In this episode of Fire Law Roundup for July 11, 2022, Brad and Curt discuss an Indiana lawsuit alleging gender discrimination by a female EMT alleging male firefighters were punished less harshly; manslaughter charges against a dispatcher for refusing to promptly dispatch an ambulance; a ruling that the widow of a retired FDNY firefighter who volunteered at Ground Zero is ineligible for workers comp benefits; a lawsuit filed by a male firefighter alleging he was disciplined and terminated in retaliation for cooperating with a sexual harassment investigation into the fire chief; a ruling in the lawsuit brought by a homeless man who was kicked in the head by a Dallas firefighter; and a lawsuit brought by the pension system for Detroit firefighters relating to a series of gas explosions that occurred in Massachusetts in 2018.
Indiana EMT Claims Gender Discrimination Over Discipline
PA Dispatcher Facing Manslaughter Charges For Not Promptly Dispatching EMS
