§ 16-49-6-10 — Confidentiality of records; immunity

Indiana § 16-49-6-10

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 49: CHILD FATALITY REVIEWS
• Ch. 6: Fetal-Infant Mortality Review Teams

Text

(a) Local fetal-infant mortality review team
members and individuals who attend a local fetal-infant mortality
review team meeting at the invitation of the chairperson shall maintain
the confidentiality of records and information discussed and
disseminated during a local fetal-infant mortality review team meeting.
(b) The local fetal-infant mortality review team members and
individuals who attend a review team meeting at the invitation of the
chairperson:
(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are
before the local fetal-infant mortality review team; and
(2) are, except when acting:
(A) with malice;
(B) in bad faith; or
(C) with negligence;
immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise
be imposed as a result of sharing among themselves those matters.
(c) The discussions, determinations, conclusions, and
recommendations of the local fetal-infant mortality review team or its
members concerning a review of a fatality at a review team meeting:
(1) are privileged; and
(2) are not:
(A) subject to subpoena or discovery; or
(B) admissible as evidence;
in any judicial or administrative proceeding.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.31-2019, SEC.5.