Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
CREAMER, Attorney General, February 2, 1972.
Under date of December 26, 1971, you asked this office to render an opinion as to whether the Good Samaritan Act of 1963, P. L. 582, as amended, 12 PS § 1641, and/or the Commonwealth's liability insurance protects a physician in a suit for liability when they have been called to the scene of an emergency, rather than "happening" onto the scene of an accident. You have also asked whether such physicians are protected...
