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Immunity from Civil Liability
•An Act to Protect Health Care Practitioners Responding to Public Health Threats
•(22 M.R.S.A. §816, sub-§1; eff. Sept. 13, 2003)
•For private institutions:
•“…in support of the State’s response to a declared extreme public health emergency…”
Speaking Points

Here, Maine law provides for immunity from civil liability for health care practitioners who are employees in a private institution, as if they were state employees, here specifically for acts in support of the state’s response to a public health emergency.

BOTH of these provisions implicate the notion of “acting in good faith.” A common requirement for the law to grant immunity from liability.