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Law Number

ARM 24.126.415(3)-(4)

Summary Title

Liability: Chiropractor

Summary

A chiropractor with a temporary or out of state license, or a chiropractor supervising a chiropractor with a temporary license, who, voluntarily and outside their ordinary course of employment, provides care during an emergency or disaster, will not be held legally responsible for acting or failing to act. They can be held legally responsible if acting with extreme carelessness or intent to cause harm.

Full Title

Participation in disaster and emergency care -- liability of chiropractor

Full Text

(3) A chiropractor referred to in (1) who voluntarily, gratuitously, and other than in the ordinary course of employment or practice renders emergency chiropractic care during an emergency or disaster described in (1) is not liable for civil damages for a personal injury resulting from an act or omission in providing that care if the injury is caused by simple or ordinary negligence and if the care is provided somewhere other than in a health care facility or a chiropractic office where those services are normally provided. (4) A chiropractor who supervises a temporary licensee voluntarily and gratuitously providing emergency care at an emergency or disaster described in (1) is not liable for civil damages for a personal injury resulting from an act or omission in supervising the temporary licensee if the injury is caused by simple or ordinary negligence on the part of the temporary licensee providing the care or on the part of the supervising chiropractor.

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