Title 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure

This Act may be cited as the Volunteer Protection Act of 1999.

For purposes of this Act: (a) Economic loss shall mean any pecuniary loss resulting from harm, including the loss of earnings or other benefits related to employment, medical expense loss, replacement services loss, loss due to death, burial costs, and loss of business or employm…

Unless otherwise provided by law, no volunteer of a nonprofit organization or governmental entity shall be liable for harm caused by an act or omission of the volunteer on behalf of the organization or entity if: (a) the volunteer was acting within the scope of the volunteer’s re…

Volunteers. As a general rule, punitive damages may not be awarded against a volunteer in an action brought for harm based on the action of a volunteer acting within the scope of the volunteer’s responsibilities to a nonprofit organization or governmental entity, unless the claim…

In any civil action against a volunteer based on an action of a volunteer acting within the scope of the volunteer’s responsibility to a nonprofit organization or governmental entity, the liability of the volunteer for non-economic loss shall be determined in accordance with § 16…

Each defendant, who is a volunteer, shall be liable only for the amount of non-economic loss allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to the percentage of responsibility of that defendant for the harm to the claimant with respect to which the defendant is liable. The cour…

This Act applies to any claim for harm caused by an act or omission of a volunteer where that claim is filed on or after the effective date of this Act, but only if the harm that is the subject of the claim or the conduct that caused such harm occurred after such effective date. …