2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-1708. Malpractice insurance on doctors and nurses in health departments - Liability.

Universal Citation: 63 OK Stat § 63-1-1708 (2019)

The State Commissioner of Health may purchase, with public funds, insurance to protect the public against malpractice of doctors and nurses employed by the State Department of Health full time, and to indemnify such doctors and nurses in connection therewith; and the director of any county, district or cooperative department of health may purchase, with public funds, insurance to protect the public against malpractice of doctors and nurses employed full time by such department and to indemnify such doctors and nurses in connection therewith. This section shall not be construed to make the state or a county, or any of the aforesaid departments of health, liable for damages resulting from such malpractice.

Laws 1963, c. 299, § 1.

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