Latest Ambulance Headlines
All the headlines from our Ambulance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Audit shows Washington insurers over-billed
Mar 20 2006 // The Spokane, Wash., City Council will decide whether to terminate a contract with a private ambulance company that overbilled hundreds of patients and insurance companies more than $320,000. The fire department was...
Audit Shows Spokane, Wash., Ambulance Patients, Insurance Companies Overbilled
Mar 10 2006 // The Spokane, Wash., City Council will decide whether to terminate a contract with a private ambulance company that overbilled hundreds of patients and insurance companies more than $320,000 in the past three years. The...
Colo. senate wants insurers to pay medical bills
Feb 20 2006 // Auto insurers would have to pay ambulance and emergency room bills in car accidents, under a measure backed by a Colorado Senate panel. Officials for hospitals and ambulance services said someone needs to help them pay for...
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Feb 19 2006 // Colo. senate wants insurers to pay medical bills Auto insurers would have to pay ambulance and emergency room bills in car accidents, under a measure backed by a Colorado Senate panel. Officials for hospitals and ambulance...
Colo. Senate Panel Backs Requiring Auto Insurers to Pay Medical Bills
Feb 3 2006 // Auto insurers would have to pay ambulance and emergency room bills in car accidents under a measure backed by a Colorado Senate panel. Officials for hospitals and ambulance services said someone needs to help them pay for...
Colo. Drivers Could Pay Extra $10 to Subsidize Ambulances
Jan 26 2006 // Colorado drivers could be asked to pay about $10 extra on their annual car registration renewals in order to subsidize ambulance services under a proposed change to the state’s new car insurance system. First...
Feds Seek to Prevent Air Ambulance Crashes But Question is How
Jan 26 2006 // The 55 air ambulance accidents over the past three years didn’t have to happen, and federal safety investigators say they want to prevent future crashes with better pilot training, night vision goggles and crash...
South Carolina Tweaking Hurricane Preparedness Plans
Oct 3 2005 // Emergency workers along the South Carolina coast are tweaking hurricane preparedness plans in the wake of Gulf Coast storms Katrina and Rita. According to the Columbia State, officials are looking into whether there are...
THOMCO Adds Ambulance Programs
Jan 7 2005 // THOMCO announced the acquisition of the book of business of The American Agency, a specialist in ambulance services, hospital fleets and para-transit operations. Howard Handler and Kent Clements, as managers of...
U.K.’s Amicus Decries Insurers’ Opposition to Asbestos Claims; “Ambulance Chasers”
Dec 14 2004 // Amicus, the U.K.’s largest private sector union, announced it will issue a statement condemning insurers, whom it accuses of “attempting to shirk their responsibility to compensate up to 75 percent of asbestos...
Del. Commissioner Notes 2003 Financial Support for State Fire, Rescue and Ambulance Organizations
Apr 2 2004 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Donna Lee Williams announced the totals of this year’s State financial support of Delaware fire companies. The State’s disbursements come from taxes paid by insurers based on...
Pain in Knee Caused by Shotgun Pellets, Not Trailer Crash
Dec 25 2002 // After a woman’s car rear-ended a trash trailer on the side of the road in Houston, an ambulance arrived on the scene to find Ronald J. Dawson sprawled nearby in the grass. He claimed that the trailer had knocked him...
8 is Enough – Programs That Caught Our Eye
Dec 16 2002 // For this end-of-the year edition of Insurance Journal, we looked at some unique or interesting programs and found eight that grabbed our attention. Obviously they do not represent a comprehensive list, which is admittedly...
8 is Enough – Programs That Caught Our Eye
Dec 16 2002 // For this end-of-the year edition of Insurance Journal, we looked at some unique or interesting programs and found eight that grabbed our attention. Obviously they do not represent a comprehensive list, which is admittedly...
Report Private Ambulance Drivers Favor Their Own NYC Hospitals
Jun 27 2001 // A report in The Village Voice details the problems confronting New York City’s emergency services, focusing on the marked tendency of private ambulance drivers to bring injured, but insured, emergency victims to...
Court Rules Against State Fund in Schaefer Ambulance Case
Feb 26 2001 // Seven years after an initial lawsuit was filed, the California Supreme Court made a ruling unfavorable to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) in the case of State Compensation Insurance Fund,...
