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164.891 Definitions for KRS 164.890 to 164.895.
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"Basic coverage compensation fund" means the fund which may be
established by the University of Louisville for the purpose of paying claims or
judgments for personal injury or death to patients resulting from any tort or
breach of duty based on health care services rendered or which should have
been rendered by the university or its agents. This fund shall also include all
contributions, annual contributions made to the fund by the university together
with such income as may be received from time to time from the investment of
the funds in said fund by the secretary.
"Secretary" means the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet.
"Agents" means members of the board of trustees of the university, the board
of directors of its hospital, its faculty, hospital staff nurses, nurses aides,
volunteer workers, employees and students, including residents and interns,
and all other persons involved in furnishing health care within the scope of their
duties or courses of study in connection with the University of Louisville.
Employed physicians and dentists are agents of the university and within the
scope of their duties when rendering professional services in emergencies and
other special circumstances so long as such services do not constitute private
practice outside the university hospital upon patients not involved in teaching or
research and for which the physician or dentist derives income.
"University" means the University of Louisville.
"Excess coverage fund" means the funds that may be made available through
appropriations made by the General Assembly to pay judgments hereunder
upon exhaustion of the basic coverage compensation fund.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. -Created 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 2.
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