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Full Statute Name: West's Louisiana Statutes Annotated. Louisiana Revised Statutes. Title 37. Professions and Occupations. Chapter 20. Miscellaneous Provisions Common to Certain Professions. Part V. Good Samaritan Law. Share
Primary Citation: LA R.S. 37:1731
Statute Text: A. (1) A physician, surgeon, or physician assistant licensed under the provisions of Chapter 15 of this Title, his professional medical corporation chartered under the provisions of R.S. 12:901 et seq., or his limited liability company, or a nurse licensed under the provisions of Chapter 11 of this Title who in good faith gratuitously renders emergency care or services at the scene of an emergency, to a person in need thereof shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission in rendering such care or services or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the person involved in said emergency, unless the damage or injury was caused by willful or wanton misconduct or gross negligence.
(c) An on-call physician or oral and maxillofacial surgeon who gratuitously attends, assists, or treats a patient who comes into an emergency room or department, including any appropriate standard of care treatment necessitated by the patient's emergent condition, shall not be liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission in rendering the emergency care or service to a patient, with whom there has been no prior physician-patient relationship or from failure to provide or arrange for further medical care or treatment to such patient unless the damage or injury was caused by willful or wanton misconduct or gross negligence.
E. (1) No emergency medical technician who in good faith gratuitously renders emergency care or services at the scene of an emergency to a person or persons in need thereof shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission in rendering the care or services or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the person involved in the emergency.
Added by Acts 1964, No. 46, § 1. Amended by Acts 1989, No. 347, § 1; Acts 1990, No. 148, § 1; Acts 1993, No. 618, § 1; Acts 1997, No. 316, § 1; Acts 1997, No. 1105, § 1, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2003, No. 1033, § 1.