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good Samaritan law

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noun

  1. a law that exempts from legal liability persons, sometimes only physicians, who give reasonable aid to strangers in grave physical distress.

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About half of U.S. states allow some distribution of naloxone, and at least 20 have a version of the good Samaritan law.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 21, 2014

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