Section 15-117 - Indemnification of insurers and nonprofit health service plans.

§ 15-117. Indemnification of insurers and nonprofit health service plans.
 

(a)  Scope of section.- This section applies to insurers and nonprofit health service plans that issue or deliver individual hospital or major medical insurance policies or group or blanket health insurance policies in the State. 

(b)  Requirement to indemnify prohibited.- An entity subject to this section, by contract or in any other manner, may not require a health care provider to indemnify the entity or hold the entity harmless from a coverage decision or negligent act of the entity. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 48A, §§ 354RR, 470HH, 477RR; 1997, ch. 35, § 2.]