2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 3 - General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
Part 2 - Special Liability Rules
33-3-209 - Immunity from liability where duty satisfied.
33-3-209. Immunity from liability where duty satisfied.
If a professional or an employee has satisfied the person's duty under § 33-3-206 or § 33-3-208, no monetary liability and no cause of action may arise against the professional, an employee, or any service provider in whose service the duty arose for the professional or employee not predicting, warning of, or taking precautions to provide protection from violent behavior by the person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability.
[Acts 1989, ch. 549, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 33-10-302(a), 33-10-303; Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.]
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