Re: 911:: Re: Dispatcher liability

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In a message dated 3/24/2003 5:17:02 PM Mountain Standard Time,

rweintraut@... writes:

> I put dispatcher liability insurance in Google.. and found this...

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> Interesting.

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> http://www.euclidmanagers.com/pg911.asp

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> Weintraut

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That's interesting, but they offer a policy for the center, not the

individual. I've been doing this for over 20 years and have never been sued,

nor have had a coworker sued, or heard of any dispatcher in the area being

sued. Departments get sued and have included dispatchers names but only

because they were on duty during the incident and the departments handled the

legal representation.

I've never been afraid of being sued, even when we started doing EMD many

moons ago. I can back up everything I say on the phone/in person with

policy/state law/local law/emd book. And if I don't know the correct thing

to say, I go to a higher authority and get the information.

In my opinion, if you're afraid of being sued as an individual, then I think

you're in the wrong line of work.

Kathy

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I put dispatcher liability insurance in Google.. and found this...

Interesting.

http://www.euclidmanagers.com/pg911.asp

Weintraut

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At 07:16 PM 3/24/03 -0500, you wrote:

>I put dispatcher liability insurance in Google.. and found this...

The insurnace that the guys I went to class with was for trainers and was

$120.00 for the year.

Annmarie aka Mickey

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>I've never been afraid of being sued, even when we started doing EMD many

moons ago.

Nor I... but I know others who have the concern.

I happened to remember a prepaid legal organization that

came around to some of our training, if I remember correctly

they said their service would cover dispatcher liability.

I know little of the company and certainly am not endorsing them

but I still had their business card, and here's the web page.

http://www.prepaidlegal.com/

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You can be sued as a dispatcher. I know first hand. I won't go into all

the details, however I came out on top. I did have and continue to have the

pre paid legal that was talking about. They were a great help.

My Department does not provide a legal team for you if you are sued in civil

court. If it is criminal then they will provide a legal team, but civil no.

Same with my old department when the civil suit took place.

I am not afraid of being sued. Like Kathy said I can back everything up I

do with tapes,policy and so on.

I think people are out to make a fast buck. They see the light and they run

for it. It is part of the job.

Last July I was dispatching when an officer shot and killed a naked man

standing over a female in her home with a knife. I was just told by the

officer that that naked mans family has filed a 2 million $ civil suit

against him. He told me that he heard that each and every person involved

in the run including calltaker and I will be served papers of suit.

So we will see.