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Law Number

Conn Gen Stat 52-557b(b)

Summary Title

Liability: Person Trained in First Aid

Summary

A firefighter, law enforcement officer, teacher or school personnel on school grounds, ski patrol member, lifeguard, conservation officer, patrol officer, special law enforcement officer of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, or emergency medical service personnel who, after completion of an approved first aid course, provides emergency first aid will not be held legally responsible. They can be held legally responsible if acting with extreme carelessness or intent to cause harm. A firefighter, law enforcement officer, or emergency medical personnel who forcibly enters the residence of a person they reasonably believe needs immediate emergency first aid will not be held legally responsible. They can be held legally responsible if acting with extreme carelessness or intent to cause harm.

Full Title

“Good samaritan law”. Immunity from liability for emergency medical assistance, first aid or medication by injection. School personnel not required to administer or render. Immunity from liability re automatic external defibrillators.

Full Text

(b) A paid or volunteer firefighter or police officer, a teacher or other school personnel on the school grounds or in the school building or at a school function, a member of a ski patrol, a lifeguard, a conservation officer, patrol officer or special police officer of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, or emergency medical service personnel, who has completed a course in first aid offered by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, the National Ski Patrol, the Department of Public Health or any director of health, as certified by the agency or director of health offering the course, and who renders emergency first aid to a person in need thereof, shall not be liable to such person assisted for civil damages for any personal injuries which result from acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency first aid, which may constitute ordinary negligence. No paid or volunteer firefighter, police officer or emergency medical service personnel who forcibly enters the residence of any person in order to render emergency first aid to a person whom such firefighter, police officer or emergency medical service personnel reasonably believes to be in need thereof shall be liable to such person for civil damages incurred as a result of such entry. The immunity provided in this subsection does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, wilful or wanton negligence.

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