Walk It Through: The Stranger Who Stopped
CPR at a crash, a defibrillator from a store, a death, and the family's three years.
A passerby stops at a crash on a rural road where a driver is not breathing.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One crash and one family. Volunteer physicians at athletic events, damages caps, claims against a public body and the criminal case against the driver are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Emergency medical assistanceMedical or dental care given voluntarily and without expecting payment, outside a place where emergency care is regularly available, to an injured person in need of immediate care, where helping is the only alternative to death or serious physical aftereffects.
- Gross negligenceThe fault a complaining party has to allege and prove to recover damages from a person for acts or omissions while rendering emergency medical assistance.
- Personal representativeIn a wrongful death action, the person who sues, for the surviving spouse, children, parents, others entitled to inherit, and stepchildren and stepparents, when a death is caused by another's wrongful act or omission.