227 Ga. App. 186 - Thomas v. DeKalb County’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “[a]ny person, including agents and employees, who is licensed to furnish ambulance service and who in good faith renders emergency care to a person who is a victim of an accident or emergency shall not be liable for any civil damages to such victim as a result of any act or omission by such person in rendering such emergency care to such victim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 Ga. App. 82 - Bixler v. Merritt · 250 Ga. App. 663 - Martin v. Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority

2. “the General Assembly has recognized that the expense and difficulty of obtaining insurance, combined with the virtually unlimited potential civil liability, could be enough to drive many providers of ambulance service out of the business and greatly discourage others from entering. The effect, in many areas of the state, would be to make emergency ambulance service virtually unobtainable. In recognition of this, the legislature chose to grant immunity from civil lia bility to providers of such emergency services who were licensed under the Act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 Ga. App. 663 - Martin v. Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority

3. “Such an application would force all emergency care providers protected by the statute to incur the substantial costs associated with defending an action through trial, which itself could be enough to drive many providers of ambulance service out of the business and greatly discourage others from entering.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 Ga. App. 82 - Bixler v. Merritt