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6-5-663
Section 6-5-663 Liability of volunteer medical professionals. (a) A medical professional who,
in good faith, provides, without fee or compensation, medical treatment, diagnosis, advice,
or nursing services as a part of the services of an established free medical clinic, shall
not be liable for civil damages as a result of his or her acts or omissions in providing the
medical treatment, diagnosis, advice, or nursing services, unless the act or omission was
the result of the licensed healthcare provider's willful or wanton misconduct. (b) Subsection
(a) does not apply to a particular case unless the free medical clinic has posted in a conspicuous
place on its premises an explanation of the immunity from civil liability provided by this
article. (c) The immunity from civil liability provided under subsection (a) also applies
to medical professionals who provide, without fee or compensation, further medical treatment,
diagnosis, advice, or nursing services to a patient upon referral from...
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9-11-264
Section 9-11-264 Liability for injury or damage to persons or domestic animals of persons using
traps, etc., to take, capture, etc., fur-bearing animals; exemption of Lawrence County. Any
person shall be strictly liable for civil damages who causes the injury or damage to any person
or domestic animal as a result of using any trap or similar device on public land to take,
capture, or kill any of the fur-bearing animals protected by the laws or regulations of this
state. Any person who suffers injury or damage to his person or domestic animal as a result
of such activity shall have an action for civil damages and such aggrieved person need not
prove negligence. The provisions of this section shall not apply to Lawrence County. (Acts
1977, No. 801, p. 1381, §2; Acts 1979, No. 79-123, p. 154, §1; Act 2015-485, §1.)...
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34-29-90
Section 34-29-90 Immunity of veterinarians from suit for emergency care of animals or human
victims; nonliability to animal hospital. (a) Any licensed veterinarian who in good faith
as a volunteer and without fee renders emergency care or treatment to a domestic animal shall
not be liable in a suit for damages as a result of his or her acts or omissions which may
occur during emergency care or treatment, nor shall he or she be liable to any animal hospital
for its expense if under emergency conditions he or she orders an animal hospitalized or causes
his or her admission to a hospital. (b) Any licensed veterinarian who in good faith renders
or attempts to render emergency care at the scene of an accident or emergency to the human
victim or victims thereof shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act
or omissions by persons rendering or attempting to render the emergency care. (Acts 1986,
No. 86-500, p. 956, §31; Acts 1997, No. 97-249, p. 431, §1.)...
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6-5-551
Section 6-5-551 Complaint to detail circumstances rendering provider liable; discovery. In
any action for injury, damages, or wrongful death, whether in contract or in tort, against
a health care provider for breach of the standard of care, whether resulting from acts or
omissions in providing health care, or the hiring, training, supervision, retention, or termination
of care givers, the Alabama Medical Liability Act shall govern the parameters of discovery
and all aspects of the action. The plaintiff shall include in the complaint filed in the action
a detailed specification and factual description of each act and omission alleged by plaintiff
to render the health care provider liable to plaintiff and shall include when feasible and
ascertainable the date, time, and place of the act or acts. The plaintiff shall amend his
complaint timely upon ascertainment of new or different acts or omissions upon which his claim
is based; provided, however, that any such amendment must be made at...
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26-21-6.1
Section 26-21-6.1 Civil action under chapter. In addition to whatever remedies are available
under the common or statutory law of this state, failure to comply with the requirements of
this chapter shall provide a basis for a civil action for compensatory and/or punitive damages.
Any criminal conviction under this chapter shall be admissible in a civil suit as prima facie
evidence of a failure to obtain an informed consent or parental or judicial consent. The civil
action may be based on a claim that the action was a result of simple negligence, gross negligence,
wantonness, willfulness, intention, or breach of other legal standard of care. The Medical
Liability Act of 1987 shall not apply to any civil causes of action brought pursuant to Sections
26-21-1, 26-21-2, 26-21-3, 26-21-4, 26-21-6, 26-21-6.1, and 26-21-7. (Act 2014-445, p. 1660,
§2.)...
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22-8A-7
Section 22-8A-7 Competency of declarant; liability of participating physician, facility, etc.
(a) A competent adult may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment and artificially
provided nutrition and hydration so long as that individual is able to do so. The desires
of an individual shall at all times supersede the effect of an advance directive for health
care. (b) If the individual is not competent at the time of the decision to provide, withhold,
or withdraw life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration, a
living will executed in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(a) or a proxy designation executed
in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(b) is presumed to be valid. For the purpose of this chapter,
a health care provider may presume in the absence of actual notice to the contrary that an
individual who executed an advance directive for health care was competent when it was executed.
The fact of an individual's having executed an advance directive for...
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26-1A-404
Section 26-1A-404 Health care powers of attorney executed on or after January 1, 2012. (a)
This section applies to a power of attorney for health care decisions executed on or after
January 1, 2012. (b) A durable power of attorney is a power of attorney by which a principal
designates another his or her attorney in fact or agent in writing and the writing contains
the words "This power of attorney shall not be affected by disability, incompetency,
or incapacity of the principal" or "This power of attorney shall become effective
upon the disability, incompetency, or incapacity of the principal" or similar words showing
the intent of the principal that the authority conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding
the principal's subsequent disability, incompetency, or incapacity. (c)(1) A principal may
designate under a durable power of attorney an individual who shall be empowered to make health
care decisions on behalf of the principal, in the manner set forth in the Natural Death Act,...
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22-30D-9
Section 22-30D-9 Liability. (a)(1) Except as otherwise preempted or limited by applicable federal
law, upon reporting to the department and the board of any contamination or suspected contamination,
no owner or operator, wholesale distributor, impacted third party, adjacent landowner, or
person owning any abandoned drycleaning facility who shall have elected to be covered by this
chapter shall be liable to the state or any third party for costs incurred in the investigation
or cleanup of, or equitable relief relating to, or resulting, in whole or in part, from a
preexisting release of any drycleaning agent at, on, or from any drycleaning facility, wholesale
distribution facility, or abandoned drycleaning facility or a new release of any drycleaning
agent, unless such new release resulted from noncompliance with a department approved investigation,
assessment, or remediation plan. (2) Pursuant to the rules and regulations to be adopted by
the department as required by Section 22-30D-4...
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34-11-2
Section 34-11-2 Practice of engineering and land surveying regulated. (a) A person in either
public or private capacity may not practice or offer to practice engineering or land surveying,
unless he or she shall first have submitted evidence that he or she is qualified so to practice
and shall be licensed by the board as hereinafter provided or unless he or she is specifically
exempted from licensure under this chapter. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter,
all engineering design of buildings, structures, products, machines, processes, and systems
that can affect health, life, safety, welfare, and property shall be conducted under the responsible
charge of a licensed professional engineer. (c) In order to safeguard health, life, safety,
welfare, and property, the practice of engineering in this state is a learned profession to
be practiced and regulated as such, and its practitioners in this state shall be held accountable
to the state and members of the public by high...
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35-11-372
Section 35-11-372 Release or satisfaction. (a) During the period of time allowed by Section
35-11-371 for perfecting the lien, including that period of time during which the hospital
is awaiting payment or denial by the patient's health care payor, and also after the lien
provided for by this division has been perfected by any lienholder entitled thereto, no release
or satisfaction of any action, claim, counterclaim, demand, judgment, settlement, or settlement
agreement, or of any of them, shall be valid or effectual as against the lien unless the lienholder
shall join therein or execute a release of the lien. (b) Any acceptance of a release or satisfaction
of any action, claim, counterclaim, demand, or judgment and any settlement of any of the foregoing
in the absence of a release or satisfaction of the lien referred to in this division shall
prima facie constitute an impairment of the lien, and the lienholder shall be entitled to
a civil action for damages on account of the...
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