Civil liability and penalty of health care provider
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 700 So. 2d 1326 - Jennings v. State (1997)
Most recently applied in Hosan M. Azomani v. State of Mississippi (August 2016)
Laws, 1984, ch. 503, § 13, eff from and after passage (approved May 15, 1984
(1) A health care provider or vendor committing any act or omission in violation of this article shall be directly liable to the state and shall forfeit and pay to the state a civil penalty equal to the full amount received, plus an additional civil penalty equal to triple the full amount received.
(2) A criminal action need not be brought against a person for that person to be civilly liable under this article.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.