Sullins v. American Medical Response of Oklahoma, Inc.

11 The court holds today that a private entity is not a public trust's "agency" within the meaning of the Governmental Tort Claims Act merely because it is contractually obligated to a public trust to provide the latter with services. I concur in the court's bottom-line answer but not in its pronouncement. The determinative issue here is whether the defendant American Medical Response of Oklahoma, Inc. [AMR] may *265claim implied immunity from tort liability as a municipal ageney. Just as the court does today, I would also answer in the negative. My bottom line is that EMSA (a public trust) lacks…