A New Haven Superior Court judge Wednesday ruled that ambulance personnel were negligent when they botched inserting an IV line into a man’s arm during a diabetic emergency, and ordered the company to pay the patient $722,290 as a result.
The defendant, New Haven-based American Medical Response (AMR) of Connecticut, asserted that it was immune from liability because of the state’s rarely used “Good Samaritan Act.” The act states, in part, that emergency medical personnel who render first aid to a person in need are not liable for “civil damages for any personal injuries which result.”
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