2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 - Public Health and Safety
RS 40:1155.5 - Immunity from liability
§1155.5. Immunity from liability
A.(1) Any health care provider, physician, or other person acting under the direction of a physician shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct as a result of the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a patient who has duly executed a LaPOST form in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart, or as a result of transferring a patient to a provider with which the provisions of this Subpart can be effectuated.
(2) Any person, health care provider, physician, or other person acting under the direction of a physician who authorizes the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures in accordance with a duly executed LaPOST form, or as otherwise provided in this Subpart, shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability for such action.
(3) A duly executed LaPOST form made in accordance with this Subpart shall be presumed to have been made voluntarily.
B.(1) A licensed emergency medical services practitioner shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability for withholding life-sustaining procedures from a patient who has duly executed a LaPOST form.
(2) A licensed emergency medical services practitioner shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability for administering life-sustaining procedures to a patient who has duly executed a LaPOST form when there is no reasonable means by which the licensed emergency medical services practitioner could know or should have known that the patient had executed such LaPOST form, or as a result of transferring a patient to a provider with which the provisions of this Subpart can be effectuated.
Acts 2010, No. 954, §1; Acts 2012, No. 789, §2, eff. June 13, 2012; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1299.64.5 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.
