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Immunity from Civil Liability
•An Act to Protect Health Care Practitioners Responding to Public Health Threats
•(24 M.R.S.A. §2904; effective September 13, 2003)
•For health care practitioners:
•voluntarily, without the expectation or receipt of monetary or other compensation
•acting within the scope of licensure
•for harm not caused by willful, wanton, reckless, or negligent acts
Speaking Points

There is a range of laws, both federal and state, that may apply to the liability of health care practitioners, who volunteer in support of the state’s response to a public health threat or to an extreme public health emergency (both defined terms in Maine statute), and here is an example of a pretty recent one in Maine: In 1993, the legislature enacted “An Act to Protect Health Care Practitioners Responding to Public Health Threats” which amended the Maine Revised Statutes in two different places:

This first one may look to you like a Good Samaritan statute.

Immunity from civil liability may be granted for a licensed health care practitioner who acts in good faith.