Latest Ambulance Headlines
All the headlines from our Ambulance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
National Interstate Enters Ambulance Insurance Market
May 18 2011 // National Interstate Insurance Co., a provider of transportation insurance, has entered the ambulance insurance market through a relationship with McNeil & Company, Inc.. The Ambulance Services Insurance Program (ASIP)...
New Jersey Towns Look to Charge Insurers for Fire and First-Aid
Dec 9 2010 // Some New Jerseyans might have to pay if they need the fire department or an ambulance. Salem’s City Council has adopted an ordinance that would allow the fire department to charge to recover costs. The council says...
General Star Launches Occurrence Coverage for Ambulance Program
Aug 16 2010 // General Star has launched professional liability coverage for air and ground ambulances on an occurrence basis. This new option is an alternative to the claims-made professional coverage currently available. Program...
Florida Jury Awards $10 Million in Ambulance Birth
Apr 7 2010 // A jury has awarded $10 million to a Volusia County who sued an ambulance transport service over injuries her son received during his premature birth in 2003. The jury decided last week that EVAC Ambulance was negligent for...
It Figures
Feb 7 2010 // 4.2 Million Number of vehicles recalled worldwide by Toyota Motor Corp., prompted by sticky gas pedals, a problem the automaker says is rare and caused by condensation that builds up in the gas pedal assembly. The problem,...
Virginia County Wants Insurers to Pay for Ambulance Services
Jan 21 2010 // The Board of County Supervisors in Prince William County, Virginia is considering raising the cost of an ambulance trip. The board on Tuesday moved forward with a plan to have insurance companies pay between $400 and $700...
Debate Continues in Maryland Over Ambulance Transport Fees
Nov 30 2008 // Montgomery County, Maryland Executive Ike Leggett is pushing council members to revive a plan to create an ambulance transport fee. Leggett maintains that fees ranging from $300 to $800 would go directly to insurance...
Debate Continues over Maryland Ambulance Fees
Nov 18 2008 // Montgomery County, Maryland Executive Ike Leggett is pushing council members to revive a plan to create an ambulance transport fee. Leggett maintains that fees ranging from $300 to $800 would go directly to insurance...
Maryland County Begins Charging for Ambulance service
Jul 7 2008 // Maryland’s Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department has begun charging for ambulance service. Officials say residents who have health insurance, including Medicaid or Medicare, won’t have to pay...
Delaware Firemen Pursue Ambulance Patient Safety Concerns
Jun 24 2008 // The Delaware Volunteer Firemen’s Association says it is looking into the safety of patient compartments in ambulances. Executive secretary Jim Cubbage says questions first surfaced after a January accident that...
Colorado Senate OKs Requiring Car Insurers to Offer Medical Coverage
May 2 2008 // Colorado drivers would be nudged into buying medical coverage on their car insurance policies under a proposal backed by the state Senate on April 29. Under the bill, insurance companies would have to include $5,000 in...
Ambulance Co. Loses Insurance, 23 Miss. Counties in State of Emergency
Jan 28 2008 // Mississippi health officials hoped to come with a plan last week to restore ambulance service in 23 counties left hanging when Alabama-based Emergystat shut down. Emergystat, based in Vernon, Ala., notified Mississippi...
Miss. Ambulance Co. Goes Out of Business, 23 Counties Affected
Jan 25 2008 // Twenty-three Mississippi counties are without regular ambulance service after the only company that provided them coverage went out of business at midnight Thursday. The state Department of Health said Emergystat went out...
Flying Ice Injures Pa. Ambulance Driver
Dec 21 2007 // An ambulance driver in Bethlehem, Pa. says ice blew off a tractor trailer, smashed her windshield, struck her on the head and showered the inside of the ambulance with ice and broken glass. Jessica Strivelli says if the...
Vt. Fatal Crash Spotlights Dangers with Ambulance Services
Dec 5 2007 // An ambulance crash that killed a passenger and seriously injured an emergency medical technician last week in Vermont spotlights two major concerns in many serious ambulance crashes: questionable driving and hazardous...
Woman Sues Ambulance Medic Over MySpace Posting
May 3 2007 // A Portland, Ore., rape victim is suing a local ambulance paramedic who posted details about the attack on his MySpace Internet page. She contends the paramedic invaded her privacy by posting the approximate location, what...
S.D Bill Would Seal Driving Records of Police, Fire, Ambulance Employees
Jan 31 2007 // The South Dakota House passed a bill this week that would close the driving records of firefighters, police, ambulance employees and other emergency personnel when they have accidents on duty. That would insulate those...
California Sets New Workers’ Comp Medical Mileage and Ambulance Service Rates
Dec 12 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has announced that the mileage rate that workers’ compensation claims administrators pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or...
Judge Rules Against Private Ambulance Company Serving Spokane
Aug 21 2006 // A judge has ruled that Spokane, Wash., residents who have used American Medical Response ambulances since 1998 can pursue state Consumer Protection Act and breach of contract claims against the company. AMR, the...
Colorado Senator Kills $10 Per Vehicle Fee for Trauma Care
Apr 19 2006 // Facing a difficult election year and a “buzz saw” of opposition from a range of powerful groups, a state senator on Monday pulled his plan to charge drivers a $10-per-vehicle fee to shore up the state’s...
