Does a State Law Granting Limited Immunity to EMTs 'Impose Liability' For Acts Excluded from That Immunity?

Andrea Riffle, et al. v. Physicians and Surgeons Ambulance Service and City of Akron, Case no. 2012-0205

Ninth District Court of Appeals (Summit County)

ISSUES:

When a state law grants immunity from civil liability to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and their employers for injuries an EMT may cause while providing emergency medical services, but excludes from that immunity acts "that constitute willful or wanton misconduct," does that law "expressly impose liability" on EMTs and their employers for injuries caused by an EMT's willful or wanton misconduct?

Is there an "irreconcilable conflict" between Ohio's general sovereign immunity statute and a separate statute that specifically denies immunity for government-employed EMTs who cause injury through willful or wanton misconduct?