North Dakota Air Ambulance Lawsuit

In a lawsuit filed in u s.

North dakota air ambulance lawsuit. Bismarck valley med flight an air ambulance service with its main base in grand forks is seeking to block a new north dakota law that it argues illegally regulates prices and will hurt air. That year the median price charged by air ambulance providers in the united states for a helicopter transport was 36 400 an increase of 60 percent. Federal court strikes down north dakota statute that sought to limit fees charged by air ambulance companies on january 14 2019 chief judge daniel l. District court in bismarck contends that north dakota is trying to illegally usurp federal regulation with the new air ambulance dispatch law.

Hovland of the united states district court for the district of north dakota held that a north dakota statute limiting the fees charged by air ambulance companies was preempted by the federal airline deregulation act ada and struck it down. District court in bismarck guardian flight contends that even though the new north dakota law regulates insurance coverage for air ambulance flights it relates to air ambulance rates and services areas falling exclusively under federal jurisdiction through the airline deregulation act. In a lawsuit filed in u s.