No physician, other health care provider, or hospital shall be civilly or criminally liable for any act or omission or advice, care, or service provided by an individual practicing midwifery outside of a hospital or resulting from the choice of a woman to give birth to a child outside of a hospital, provided the midwife is not employed to practice midwifery by the physician, health care provider, or hospital or is not practicing midwifery as an employee, member, or shareholder of a business entity in which the physician, health care provider, or hospital participates by way of receiving monetary or non-cash income and has actual knowledge of the midwife's status as an employee, partner, member, or shareholder of the business entity.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.
Section 34-19-2 - Definitions.
Section 34-19-4 - Application for License.
Section 34-19-5 - Issuance, Renewal, Suspension, and Revocation of Licenses; Fee.
Section 34-19-6 - Practices Which May Be Performed by Licensees - Generally.
Section 34-19-7 - Practices Which May Be Performed by Licensees - Restrictions Generally.
Section 34-19-9 - Designation of Midwife Certification on Professional Nursing License.
Section 34-19-11 - Definitions.
Section 34-19-13 - State Board of Midwifery - Disposition of Funds.
Section 34-19-16 - Where Care May Be Performed; Required Forms an Duties of Licensed Midwife.
Section 34-19-17 - Violations.
Section 34-19-18 - Construction of Chapter.
Section 34-19-19 - Liability of Physician, Health Care Provider, or Hospital.
Section 34-19-20 - Licensed Midwives.
Section 34-19-21 - Coverage or Reimbursement for Services Not Required.