IC 16-50-1-10: Immunity; privileged communications

Sec. 10. (a) The statewide maternal mortality review committee members and individuals who attend a statewide maternal mortality review committee meeting at the invitation of the chairperson:

(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are before the statewide maternal mortality review committee; and

(2) are, except when acting:

(A) with malice;

(B) in bad faith; or

(C) with negligence;

immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be imposed as a result of sharing among themselves those matters.

(b) The discussions, determinations, conclusions, and recommendations of the statewide maternal mortality review committee or its members concerning a review of a fatality at a statewide maternal mortality review committee meeting:

(1) are privileged; and

(2) are not:

(A) subject to subpoena or discovery; or

(B) admissible as evidence;

in any judicial or administrative proceeding.