Fire Law Blog Fire Service and Public Safety Legal Issues Blog by Curt Varone
Chicago Contemplates $5 Million Settlement in Mistaken DOA Suit
The City of Chicago is poised to settle a wrongful death suit involving a mistaken DOA for $5 million. The lawsuit involves the death of Whitfield Marshall in 2019.
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11th Circuit Upholds Ruling in Favor of Miami Dade Fire Rescue and Three Firefighters
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling in favor of the Miami Dade Fire Rescue and 3 firefighter paramedics accused of negligence and deliberate indifference in their response to a medical run in 2019. Diana Cluff and Jacqueline Beaz filed suit accusing the medics of delaying their response, falsifying reports, and failing to attempt to resuscitate their father, Gustavo Beaz.
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Federal Claims Dismissed Against Miami-Dade Fire Rescue
A wrongful death lawsuit filed against Miami-Dade Fire Rescue has been remanded back to state court by the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida after the federal claims were dismissed. The lawsuit was filed last year by the family of Gustavo Beaz, who died in 2019.
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Family Sues Rural Metro for $5 Million Over Mistaken DOA
The parents of a teenager who died in a vehicle accident last year in Tennessee, have filed suit against Rural Metro of Tennessee claiming that responders failed to render aid to him in the mistaken belief he was dead. Andy ...
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Oregon FD and Medics Sued Over Accident
A patient in the back of a fire department ambulance that collided with another vehicle during transport killing the other driver, has filed suit against the department, two firefighter-paramedics, and the deceased's estate. Robert Cramblit was a patient in a Eugene Springfield Fire Department ambulance on July 31, 2013, when it collided with an SUV driven by Patricia L. Morgan. Morgan was pronounced dead at the scene.
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