{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-221","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-221","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-221","body":"(1) A health-care provider or institution that intentionally violates Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 is subject to liability to the aggrieved individual for damages of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.\n\n(2) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates an individual's advance health-care directive or a revocation of an advance health-care directive without the individual's consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke, or not to give an advance health-care directive, is subject to liability to that individual for damages of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.","path":["MS Code","Title 41"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:17Z","sha256":"f8b166ef41b0c811e5b7735cb22a294155311dcbe6d358b94beaee8537fcdeb0","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-219","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-223"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}