§ 16-50-1-10 — Immunity; privileged communications

Indiana § 16-50-1-10

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 50: MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW
• Ch. 1: Statewide Maternal Mortality Review Committee

Text

(a) The statewide maternal mortality review
committee members and individuals who attend a statewide maternal
mortality review committee meeting at the invitation of the
chairperson:
(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are
before the statewide maternal mortality review committee; 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.
(b) The discussions, determinations, conclusions, and
recommendations of the statewide maternal mortality review
committee or its members concerning a review of a fatality at a
statewide maternal mortality review committee 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.48-2018, SEC.3.