The motor vehicle exclusion to governmental immunity is not implicated in a case against an ambulance company where the company’s driver failed to follow driving directions to the home of a man in cardiac arrest, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The justices chose a narrow reading of the exclusion, which would allow fewer complaints to be brought on the basis of the alleged negligence of ambulance drivers responding to emergency calls.
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