The good Samaritan laws in Washington state protect you IF you can show you were properly trained in the technique you used. A current red cross certification for instance. It can be weird if your a medical professional though. A nurse friend said she's scard to help sometime. It may be more of an insurace thing though.

The case you're talking about is a bit more complicated then that. The lady was conscious and told her friend NOT to pull her our of the car. The friend claims she thought the car was going to explode. It didn't, others were still in the car when the paramedics arrived. The claim is, if the firefights had lifted her out correctly, her back would not have been broken.

Now if someone claimed IR did something incorrectly and that caused the damage, they might have a case. Could IR prove it's people had the proper training without telling people who they were? Or if the spouse of someone who died claimed medical malpractice?