Court: Fitness clubs have no obligation to use AEDs

Originally published: February 7, 2013 2:00 PM
Updated: February 7, 2013 9:29 PM
By YANCEY ROY yancey.roy@newsday.com

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ALBANY - New York's highest court ruled Thursday that fitness clubs don't have an obligation to use defibrillators on a member suffering a heart attack, overturning an earlier ruling involving a Suffolk County fatality.

The Court of Appeals, in a 4-1 decision, said that although state law requires health clubs to maintain automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), it doesn't carry a duty to...

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