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Article #14095Daily gripe: Good Samaratan laws in France
From: Walt Horning
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:00
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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