Latest Ambulance Headlines
All the headlines from our Ambulance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Air Ambulance Crew Administered Drug to Balloon Pilot After Arizona Crash That Killed 4
Apr 9 2024 // Authorities trying to determine whether drugs were involved in a fatal hot air ballon crash in Arizona released an amended autopsy report stating an anesthetic was administered to the pilot by an air ambulance company...
Cyberattack on 2 New York Hospitals Forces Ambulance Diversions
Oct 23 2023 // Two hospitals in New York were hit with a cyberattack and had to divert patients to other facilities, hospital officials said Friday. The cyberattack affected computer systems at HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston along...
Fatal Hawaii Ambulance Fire Linked to Oxygen Device
Sep 22 2022 // Preliminary findings from an investigation into an ambulance fire that killed a patient and injured a paramedic last month show the blaze originated in an oxygen device that is routinely used, officials in Hawaii said. The...
Texas Ambulance Company to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Aug 29 2022 // Lone Star Ambulance, a San Antonio, Texas critical care transportation company, has agreed to pay $90,000 in damages and furnish other relief in order to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Kansas Court: More Fact-Finding Required in Air Ambulance Case
May 17 2022 // Federal law may prohibit states from regulating prices charged to insurers by air ambulance providers, but that doesn’t absolve the Workers’ Compensation Board of its responsibility to determine whether the...
Judge Dismisses Air Ambulance Attempt to Block Florida Reimbursement Law
Oct 15 2021 // Florida officials are applauding a federal court’s decision to dismiss an air ambulance company’s challenge to a 2020 law that limits insurance reimbursements for pricey helicopter and fixed-wing medical...
5th Circuit: Texas May Not Regulate Air Ambulance Fees
Aug 10 2021 // A federal appellate court ruled on Aug. 4 that the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation may not enforce a law that regulates fees charged by air ambulance companies that transport injured...
U.S. Supreme Court Hands Texas Insurers a Win in Air Ambulance Billing Battle
Apr 28 2021 // A 2020 decision by the Supreme Court of Texas that limits workers’ compensation air ambulance payments to what is “fair and reasonable,” has been allowed to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to...
Washington Ambulance Company Settles Suit With Pregnant Employee
Dec 30 2020 // Ambulance company American Medical Response will settle a discrimination lawsuit after it refused to provide a pregnant Spokane, Washington employee a temporary reprieve from heavy-duty work, regulators announced...
NTSB: Structural Failure Led to Deadly North Dakota Air Ambulance Crash
Sep 8 2020 // A structural failure led to a 2018 air ambulance crash in North Dakota that killed all three people on board, a new report says. The Bismarck Tribune reports the National Transportation Safety Board last month published...
Insurers Score a Win in Texas Air Ambulance Fee Dispute
Jul 16 2020 // State law prevails in disputes between insurers and an air ambulance service over reimbursements under the Texas workers’ compensation system, the state’s highest court recently ruled. In Texas Mutual Insurance...
4 Hurt When Ambulance Crashes into Oklahoma Toll Booth
Jun 16 2020 // Four people were injured, at least three critically, when an ambulance crashed into a toll booth on an Oklahoma turnpike early Friday, Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart said. The Jackson County Emergency...
Safety Probe Cites ‘Poor Safety Culture’ for Fatal Air Ambulance Crash
May 21 2020 // A lax safety culture at an air ambulance company led to the crash of a medical helicopter last year in snowy weather in Ohio that killed three people, federal investigators said Tuesday. Survival Flight’s...
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner: Air Ambulance Company Is Breaking Law
Feb 11 2020 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread has issued a cease and desist order to AirMedCare Network, alleging the company is selling air ambulance subscriptions to North Dakotans illegally. Consumer protection...
Elderly Washington Woman Dies After Drop by Ambulance Workers, Suit Charges
Dec 2 2019 // The family of a 92-year-old Vancouver, Wash., woman who died after ambulance workers who were transporting her allegedly dropped her onto a sidewalk has filed a $4 million lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in Multnomah County...
Elderly Washington Woman Dies After Drop by Ambulance Workers, Suit Charges
Nov 21 2019 // The family of a 92-year-old Vancouver, Wash. woman who died after ambulance workers who were transporting her allegedly dropped her onto a sidewalk has filed a $4 million lawsuit. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the...
N. D. Insurance Commissioner Urges U.S. Senate to Tackle Surprise Air Ambulance Bills
Jul 16 2019 // In a letter sent to U.S. Senate leaders in early July, North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread, urged lawmakers to take action on the issue of surprise bills from air ambulance providers. Godfread wrote to Senate...
New York Firefighters Seek Insurance Payments for Ambulance Funding
May 21 2019 // Firefighters from around New York state are asking state lawmakers to change the law so fire departments can recoup the cost of emergency medical calls from patient insurance plans. Under current law, volunteer ambulance...
Amid Shortage, Kansas Considering Relaxing Rules on Rural Ambulance Drivers
Mar 11 2019 // A statewide shortage of trained medical personnel has left many rural county ambulance services having to delay hospital transfers to ensure they have enough staff for emergencies. For example, in Norton County in...
North Dakota Insurance Department Appeals Court Ruling on Air Ambulance Balance Bills
Mar 4 2019 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has appealed a ruling from a U.S. District Court invalidating a law protecting individuals with health insurance from receiving large and unexpected balance bills to the 8th Circuit...
