(a) The State Crime Laboratory shall obtain a policy of professional liability insurance in the amount of no less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to indemnify any person or persons injured by the State Medical Examiner or his or her associates in the performance of their duties under this subchapter.
(b) The premium for the policy of insurance shall be paid from funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the maintenance and general operations of the State Crime Laboratory.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations
Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings
§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally
§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions
§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner
§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties
§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance
§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel
§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty
§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity
§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release
§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony
§ 12-12-314. Fees — Disposition
§ 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths
§ 12-12-316. Transportation of corpses
§ 12-12-317. Death certificates
§ 12-12-319. Embalming corpse subject to examination, investigation, or autopsy — Penalty
§ 12-12-320. Autopsies — Removal of pituitary gland
§ 12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies
§ 12-12-322. Hazardous duty pay
§ 12-12-323. Crime Lab Equipment Fund