No physician, surgeon, hospital, blood bank, tissue bank, or other person or entity who donates, obtains, prepares, transplants, injects, transfuses, or otherwise transfers or who assists or participates in obtaining, preparing, transplanting, injecting, transfusing, or transferring any tissue, organ, blood, or component thereof from one (1) or more human beings, living or dead, to another human being, shall be liable as the result of the activity, except that each such person or entity shall remain liable for negligence or willful misconduct only.
Ark. Code Ann. § 20-9-802
Limitation of liability
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Weishorn v. Miles-Cutter (1998)
Most recently applied in In re Coloplast Corp. Pelvic Support Systems Products Liability Litigation (November 2016)
Acts 1971, No. 462, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1608.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.