Section 8. No health care provider or employee thereof shall be subject to criminal or civil liability or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct, for carrying out in good faith a health care decision by an agent pursuant to a health care proxy.
No person acting as agent pursuant to a health care proxy shall be subject to criminal or civil liability for making a health care decision in good faith pursuant to this chapter.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Chapter 201d - Health Care Proxies
Section 2 - Appointment of Health Care Agents; Execution of Proxy; Alternate Agents
Section 3 - Eligibility to Serve as Agent
Section 5 - Authority of Agent
Section 6 - Incapacity of Patient; Regained Capacity
Section 7 - Revocation of Proxy
Section 8 - Liability of Health Care Providers and Agents
Section 9 - Liability for Health Care Costs
Section 10 - Coercion; Execution of Proxy
Section 11 - Foreign Proxies; Enforceability
Section 12 - Suicide or Mercy Killing
Section 13 - Pain Alleviation; Comfort Care Procedures
Section 14 - Physicians; Refusal to Honor Proxy
Section 15 - Private Facilities; Refusal to Honor Proxy