December 04, 2023
On the eve of a trial, a group of emergency medical technicians and paramedics told a Florida federal court that they reached a settlement with an ambulance service that they accused of not providing overtime.
January 26, 2023
A group of emergency medical technicians and paramedics will have to wait for a new trial until after the Florida Keys ambulance service they sued for unpaid overtime plays out its bankruptcy, a Florida federal judge ruled Thursday.
August 29, 2022
A Florida federal judge on Monday told a Florida Keys ambulance service and the emergency medical technicians suing it for unpaid overtime wages that he was ready to retry the case this week, but the company balked at reopening the case informally without filing the requisite motions.
August 23, 2022
A Florida federal judge abruptly cut a trial short Monday, granting a directed verdict to a Florida Keys ambulance service before the attorney for the emergency medical technicians and paramedics suing for allegedly unpaid overtime wages had finished questioning his first witness.
August 22, 2022
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians suing a Florida Keys ambulance service told jurors Monday that contrary to what the company's owner will argue, they were employees who are due overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act, not independent contractors.
June 13, 2022
Neither paramedics nor the ambulance service they accused of stiffing them for hours spent on call raised enough indisputable evidence to secure a pretrial win in a wage suit, a Florida federal judge held Monday.
April 08, 2022
A group of paramedics and the EMS company they worked for each asked a Florida federal court to rule in their favor in the workers' overtime suit, arguing over whether the paramedics were employees and whether their on-call time should be compensable.
April 02, 2021
A Florida federal magistrate judge has recommended sanctions against an ambulance service for its "unacceptable" and "unjustifiable" failure to provide a complete list of potential collective members in an overtime suit.