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HERRING v. AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE

Nos. A144168; 071214914.

297 P.3d 9 (2013)

255 Or. App. 315

Royshekka HERRING, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE NORTHWEST, INC., an Oregon corporation; and American Medical Response, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellants, and Lannie Haszard; and American Medical Response Ambulance Service, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided February 21, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Westwood , Portland, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were P.K. Runkles-Pearson and Stoel Rives LLP, and James Dumas , Michael J. Estok , and Lindsay Hart Neil & Weigler.

Mark G. McDougal argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Gregory Kafoury and Kafoury & McDougal.

Before SCHUMAN, Presiding Judge, and WOLLHEIM, Judge, and NAKAMOTO, Judge.

SCHUMAN, 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.

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