Riverside city has the authority to license ambulances, the Court of Appeal agreed in a published Feb. 7 opinion.
The ruling strikes down an appeal from Symons Ambulance. The ambulance company claimed city employees illegally stopped them from delivering patients to hospitals, and that the city created an illegal monopoly for American Medical Response (AMR). Both arguments were rejected by the courts.
Symons Ambulance’s case, filed Jan. 20, 2016, asked for a court order that would stop the city from interfering with Symons services.
Symons and their attorneys did not reply to requests to comment, and the Riverside City Attorney’s Office
