Legal Opinion
Herring v. American Medical Response Northwest, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Oregon
Decided February 21, 2013No. 071214914; A144168PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSchuman, P. J.
After a medical emergency, plaintiff was en route to a hospital in the back of an ambulance operated by defendant American Medical Response Northwest (AMR) when she was sexually abused by one of AMR’s employees, a paramedic.1 She brought this action against AMR alleging, among other things, that she was a “vulnerable person” as defined in ORS 124.100 and that, by permitting the abuse, AMR violated that statute.2 A jury agreed and awarded plaintiff $500,000 in noneconomic damages. Pursuant to another section of the vulnerable person statute, ORS 124.100(2)(b), the court tripled that amount and…
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