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House adopts liability-exemption language extending protection to ski-patrol medical responders
Summary
Lawmakers approved changes to state statute to extend a civil-liability exemption to compensated ski-patrol personnel performing emergency medical services in the course of their duties, after debate over whether to use 'Good Samaritan' language or an explicit 'liability exemption.' Final passage: 57–11.
The Utah House on Feb. 19 approved an amendment to state law extending a civil-liability exemption to ski-patrol personnel who render emergency medical care while performing duties as part of their employment.
Representative Valentine, presenting the measure, said the change would place ski-patrol personnel within the same liability-exemption framework that covers physicians, nurses, EMTs and paramedics under the health code (identified in the discussion as a statute found in section 26-8-11). "This bill amends a present statute which has been on the books since 1985," Valentine said, and it "gives them the same…
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