18-A §5-810. Statutory damages

Title 18-A: PROBATE CODE

Article 5: PROTECTION OF PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY AND THEIR PROPERTY

Part 8: UNIFORM HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS ACT HEADING: PL 1995, C. 378, PT. A, §1 (NEW)

§5-810. Statutory damages

(a). A health-care provider or institution that intentionally violates this Part is subject to liability to the aggrieved individual for damages of $500 or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(b). 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 $2,500 or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1995, c. 378, §A1 (NEW).