Litigation
Mar. 23, 2007
Panel Says Good Samaritan May Not Be Protected by Law
The state's Good Samaritan law may not protect a woman from liability who is accused of rendering her friend paraplegic when she tried to rescue her from a wrecked car, a Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state's Good Samaritan law may not protect a woman from liability who is accused of rendering her friend paraplegic when she tried to rescue her from a wrecked car, a Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
Reversing summary judgment, the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles wrote that the immunity applies only to "the rendition of emergency ...
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