Ind. Code § 16-49-6-10

Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 16-49-6-10 - Confidentiality of records; immunity
(a) Local fetal-infant mortality review team members and individuals who attend a local fetal-infant mortality review team meeting at the invitation of the chairperson shall maintain the confidentiality of records and information discussed and disseminated during a local fetal-infant mortality review team meeting.
(b) The local fetal-infant mortality review team members and individuals who attend a review team meeting at the invitation of the chairperson:
(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are before the local fetal-infant mortality review team; and
(2) are, except when acting:
(A) with malice;
(B) in bad faith; or
(C) with negligence;

immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be imposed as a result of sharing among themselves those matters.

(c) The discussions, determinations, conclusions, and recommendations of the local fetal-infant mortality review team or its members concerning a review of a fatality at a review team meeting:
(1) are privileged; and
(2) are not:
(A) subject to subpoena or discovery; or
(B) admissible as evidence;

in any judicial or administrative proceeding.

IC 16-49-6-10

Added by P.L. 31-2019,SEC. 5, eff. 7/1/2019.