Quote Originally Posted by Lucky SC
well ofcourse you have to ask for permission from the person if they are conciouss, but if they give you persmission to and an EMT is not near or you have no way of getting to contact one and you are running out of time then you can't be held accountable for their death by trying to help for being sued by their family and friends or anything if they die.

that is the good semeritan law, you can't be held accountable for going out of your way to help someone. if that were the case then no one would stop for fear of being sued
but there is a difference between stopping to see if everyone's ok, helping someone out of their car, calling cops, etc, and doing further harm. No one's gonna sue anyone for helping out like that. Do No Further Harm comes in when say someone is in an accident and their back is broken. Even if you ask if you may touch them and they say yes, say you move them and accidentally sever their spinal cord or collapse their lung and they die. THEN you can be sued, because you attempted to render aid and caused more harm than good. No matter how good your intentions may be, the fact remains that had you not touched the person and let them be until properly trained people had arrived (paramedics), that person would be alive. Good Samaritan = stopping and making sure everything is ok, calling cops, etc... but there is a line to be drawn. Most people, common sense kicks in. If they see a nasty accident and someone is twisted up in a mangled wreck, while they stay at the scene and call the cops, they don't try to remove the person from the wreckage. That's where the line gets crossed. Good Samaritan only goes so far.