Ala. Code § 34-19-19: Liability of Physician, Health Care Provider, or Hospital.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 34 Professions and Businesses.
- Chapter 19 Midwives.
No physician, other health care provider, or hospital shall be civilly or criminally liable for any act or omission or advice, care, or service provided by an individual practicing midwifery outside of a hospital or resulting from the choice of a woman to give birth to a child outside of a hospital, provided the midwife is not employed to practice midwifery by the physician, health care provider, or hospital or is not practicing midwifery as an employee, member, or shareholder of a business entity in which the physician, health care provider, or hospital participates by way of receiving monetary or non-cash income and has actual knowledge of the midwife’s status as an employee, partner, member, or shareholder of the business entity.
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