Opinion ID: 2582605
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Text: ¶ 2 On 21 October 1999 Lloyd Sullins brought suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma against American Medical Response of Oklahoma, Inc. [AMR] and Warren Properties, Inc. His claim was based on an August 1998 incident in which he was injured after diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool at an Oklahoma City apartment complex. Sullins injured his spinal cord and nearly drowned. EMSA, the 911 emergency medical service in Oklahoma City, was called to the scene. Sullins claims the ambulance personnel dropped him on his head, exacerbating the injury. ¶ 3 AMR is under contract to provide personnel to EMSA, a public trust created to deliver emergency medical services in Oklahoma. The trust indenture that created EMSA requires its selection of a contractor to maintain all dispatch and field functions. AMR was the operations contractor at the time of Sullins' injury.