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Pacific Law Journal Review of Selected Nevada Legislative Volume 1989 Issue 1 Article 148 1-1-1989 Torts; emergency medical services The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/nlr  Part of the Legislation Commons Recommended Citation The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Torts; emergency medical services, 1989 U. PAC. L. REV. (2019). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/nlr/vol1989/iss1/148 This Legislative Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Law Reviews at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Law Journal Review of Selected Nevada Legislative by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact mgibney@pacific.edu. Torts overcomes the presumption of reasonable fear by clear and convincing evidence. 8 DMT 8. 1989 Nev. Stat. ch. 759, sec. I, at 1798 (enacting NEv. REv. STAT. § 41._). See generally Tomeo, The Deadly Force Act: New Jersey's Attempt to Protect the Homeowner from Intrusion, 11 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 403 (1988) (analysis of New Jersey and Colorado statutes expanding an occupant's right to use force to repel an intrusion). Torts; emergency medical services NEv. REv. STAT. § 41.505 (amended). SB 52 (Rawson); 1989 STAT. Ch. 19 Under existing law, a physician' or nurs& rendering3 emergency care gratuitously and in good faith4 at the scene of an emergency, 5 or while transporting an injured person from an emergency, is not liable for civil damages except for an act or omission amounting to gross negligence. 6 Chapter 19 extends this immunity to emergency medical attendants7 or registered nurses obeying instructions from a physician or registered nurse. 8 A physician or nurse is not excused from liability if the negligence occurs in a licensed medical facility9 and the injured person was previously a patient. 10 RRH I. See Nev. Rev. STAT. § 630.014 (1987) (definition of physician). 2. See id. §§ 632.016 (1987) (definition of licensed practical nurse), 632.019 (1987) (definition of registered nurse). 3. See id. § 41.505 (1987) (rendering includes giving instruction or providing supervision). 4. See Hulse v. Sheriff of Clark, 88 Nev. 393, 398, 498 P .2d 1317, 1320 (1972) (defming good faith as good intent and the honest exercise of the physician's best judgment as to the needs of the patient). 5. See NEv. REv. STAT. § 632.015 (1987) (definition of emergency). 6. /d. § 41.505 (1987). See id. § 41.500 (1987) ("Good Samaritan" statute limiting liability to gross negligence). See generally Good Samaritans and Liability for Medical Mal-practice, 64 CoLUMBIA L. REv. 1301 (general discussion of good samaritan laws). 7. See NEV. REv. STAT. §§ 450B.025, 450B.050, 450B.065, 450B.070, 450B.085 (1987) (emergency medical attendant means person licensed as an attendant or certified as an emergency medical technician, intermediate emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician). 8. 1989 Nev. Stat. ch. 19, sec. I, at 21 (amending NEv. REv. STAT. § 41.505). 9. See NEv. REv. STAT. § 449.0151 (1987) (definition of medical facility). See also id. §§ 449.037 (1987) (standards for licensing of medical facility), 449.040 (1987) (application for license to operate facility). 10. 1989 Nev. Stat. Ch. 19, sec. I, at 21 (amending NEv. REv. STAT. § 41.505). Review of Selected Nevada Legislation 201 

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