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Section 59:6-5 - Immunity from liability for failure to diagnose certain conditions; exceptions.

NJ Rev Stat § 59:6-5 (2019) (N/A)
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59:6-5 Immunity from liability for failure to diagnose certain conditions; exceptions.

59:6-5. a. Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing to diagnose that a person has a mental illness or is a person with a substance use disorder involving drugs or from failing to prescribe for mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection exonerates a public entity or a public employee who has undertaken to prescribe for a mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs from liability for injury proximately caused by negligence or by a wrongful act in so prescribing.

b. Nothing in subsection a. exonerates a public entity or a public employee from liability for injury proximately caused by a negligent or wrongful act or omission in administering any treatment prescribed for a mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs.

Amended 2017, c.131, s.218.

L.1972, c. 45, s. 59:6-5; amended 2017, c.131, s.218.

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