§ 40:1135.9 — Required insurance coverage

Louisiana § 40:1135.9

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 40: Public Health and Safety

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§1135.9. Required insurance coverage
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:4791 and 4791.1, each ambulance
provider, as defined in this Section, shall continuously have in effect the following minimum
amounts of insurance:
(1) Medical malpractice liability insurance in the amount of five hundred thousand
dollars.
(2) Automobile liability insurance in the amount of five hundred thousand dollars
in combined single limits and five hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate.
(3) General liability insurance in the amount of five hundred thousand dollars per
occurrence and five hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate.
(4) Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 1113, §2.
B. Each ambulance provider shall submit a certificate of insurance issued by its
insurance carrier to the Louisiana Department of Health as proof of the minimum insurance
coverage required by this Section. Each ambulance provider shall also be required to notify
the department in writing at least thirty days prior to any material change in or cancellation
of such coverage.
C. For purposes of this Section, "ambulance provider" shall mean any entity owning,
controlling, or operating any business or service which, as a substantial portion of its
business, furnishes, operates, conducts, maintains, advertises, engages in, proposes to engage
in, or professes to engage in the business or service of transporting persons who may need
medical attention during transport. However, "ambulance provider" shall not include:
(1) Agencies of the federal government;
(2) Volunteer nonprofit organizations or municipal nonprofit organizations operating
invalid coaches, as defined in R.S. 40:1131(7);
(3) Entities rendering assistance to licensed ambulances in the case of a major
disaster;
(4) Licensed hospitals providing nonemergency, noncritical interhospital transfer and
patient transportation for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes when such transportation
originates at a licensed hospital;
(5) Entities operating ambulances from a location outside of the state to transport
patients from a location outside of the state to a location inside the state or to transport
patients from a medical facility inside to a point outside of the state; or
(6) Entities providing transportation to employees who become sick or injured during
the course of their employment from a job site to the nearest appropriate medical facility.

Legislative History

Acts 1990, No. 442, §1; Acts 1992, No. 678, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1113, §2; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1236.4 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.