2025 Session
Last amended: 2000 session
§ 241.342 — Immunity
Plain-Language Summary
Correctional facilities, doctors, and health care workers are protected from lawsuits for sharing blood-borne pathogen test results with corrections employees, as long as they made a good faith effort to follow the law.
241.342 IMMUNITY.
A correctional facility, licensed physician, and designated health care personnel are immune from liability in any civil, administrative, or criminal action relating to the disclosure of test results of an inmate to a corrections employee and the testing of a blood sample from the inmate for blood-borne pathogens if a good faith effort has been made to comply with sections 241.33 to 241.342.
History:
History: History:
2000 c 422 s 39
Practical Notes
This immunity covers civil, administrative, and criminal liability. It protects the facility and its medical staff when they disclose test results or conduct testing under these procedures. The key requirement is a good faith effort to comply with the statutory procedures.