Helping At The Scene

In Wisconsin, any person who renders emergency care at the scene of any emergency or accident in good faith is immune from civil liability for acts or omissions in rendering that care.

• §Wis. Stat. 895.48

• The immunity does not extend to health care employees or professionals giving care for compensation and within their usual employment or practice, at a hospital, at the scene, on the way to a hospital, or at a physician's office.
• A person who uses an automated external defibrillator in good faith on someone who appears to be in cardiac arrest is immune, and so are the device's owner, its provider and the trainer, on the conditions the section sets.

• §Wis. Stat. 895.48

The protection is from civil liability, a lawsuit for damages, and the section sets its own limits on who and what it covers. Whether it applies to a particular act is a question for a court and for a licensed Wisconsin attorney.

• §Wis. Stat. 895.48