New Jersey’s Good Samaritan Act, which immunizes doctors who come to the aid of strangers on the street, does not apply when they do it in a hospital, the state Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
Justice Virginia Long, writing for a 5-2 majority, said that absent evidence of legislative intent to the contrary, N.J.S.A. 2A:62-A1 applies only when emergency assistance is needed at a location lacking adequate medical facilities in Velazquez v. Jiminez, A-105-00.
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