§ 35-22-411 — Statutory damages

(a) A health care provider or institution that violates
this act willfully or with reckless disregard of the patient's
instruction or health care decision is subject to liability to
the aggrieved individual for damages of five hundred dollars
($500.00) or actual damages resulting from the violation,
whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.
(b) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges,
conceals, defaces or obliterates an individual's advance health
care directive or a revocation of an advance health care
directive without the individual's consent, or who coerces or
fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke or not to
give an advance health care directive, is subject to liability
to that individual for damages of two thousand five hundred
dollars ($2,500.00) or actual damages resulting from the action,
whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.