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Daily gripe: Good Samaratan laws in France

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From: Walt Horning
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:00
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The news reported that France and most European countries have "Good
Samaritan" laws, while only a few states have such laws. This was the
law in France that applied to the paparazzi reporters at Princess
Diana's car accident.

(For those who do not know what this law is, it means you are required
to give whatever assistance you are capable of giving without
endangering your own life when someone else's life is in peril,
whether by car accident, drowning, electrocution, or whatever.)

Of course one of the problems in the United States with giving
assistance to someone who's life is in peril is that if you do it
wrong, even if its not your fault for not knowing what you are doing,
but you feel you must try something, and someone still dies, you may
get sued for millions and millions.
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From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
Subject: Daily gripe: Good Samaratan laws in France
Date: 1998/09/03
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