EXCEPTION FROM CERTAIN LAWS
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Murphy v. Russell (2005)
Most recently applied in Lee v. Boothe (October 2007)
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 204, Sec. 10.01, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, Sections 17.41-17.63, Business & Commerce Code, do not apply to physicians or health care providers with respect to claims for damages for personal injury or death resulting, or alleged to have resulted, from negligence on the part of any physician or health care provider.
(b) This section does not apply to pharmacists.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.