Nina -- we have similar legislation here in Pennsylvania, in the USA:  "The
"Good Samaritan" statute immunizes doctors and nurses who are present at or
called to the scene of an emergency from liability for care rendered in
good faith, except acts or omissions that are grossly negligent or
intentionally designed to harm.   42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 8331 (Westlaw 2007)"
from  http://www.mcandl.com/pennsylvania.html.

The emergencies envisioned by good samaritan legislation are things like
car wrecks, where the MD or RN pulls up behind the crashed car, jumps out,
and stops the femoral artery on the unconscious driver from bleeding out.
 Rather a one-off, once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.

It will NOT work for the IBCLC who is planning to claim that she didn't
need to carry malpractice insurance for her thriving practice.  It is hard
to claim that "emergencies" included a year's worth of clients, all of whom
scheduled appointment hours or days in advance.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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