2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-34 - Nurses
Section 5-34-34 - Immunity from liability for gratuitous emergency assistance.
§ 5-34-34. Immunity from liability for gratuitous emergency assistance.
No person licensed under the provision of this chapter or members of the same professions licensed to practice in other states of the United States who voluntarily and gratuitously and, other than in the ordinary course of his or her employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance to a person in need is liable for civil damages for any personal injuries which result from acts or omissions by those persons in rendering the emergency care which may constitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, or wanton negligence or when the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, doctor's office, or clinic where those services are normally rendered.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1982, ch. 328, § 2.)
