10 GCA § 11102
Definitions
View official PDF ↗As used in this Chapter:
(a)Health Professional means any person licensed or certified to practice the healing of arts within the territory of Guam, to include podiatry, pharmacy, nursing, as defined in '27000 of the Government Code of Guam.
(b)Health Care Institution means any health care facility or health maintenance organization operated primarily to provide the service of health professionals.
(c)Malpractice means any tort or breach of contract based on health care or professional services rendered or which should have been rendered, by a health professional or health care institution to a patient.
(d)Benevolent gesture means any action which conveys a sense of compassion or commiseration emanating from human impulses.
(e)Family means the spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, parent, grandparent, stepmother, stepfather, child, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, adopted children of parent, or spouse's parent of the COL061308 CH. 11 MEDICAL M ALPRACTICE REFORM ACT OF 1975 injured party.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 29-81 § 2 — introduced as Bill 223-29 · introduced by Vicente C. Pangelinan + 2 cosponsors
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2020 Guam 13 — Christopher Allen, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. Ian C. Richardson, in his Individual Capacity, Defendant-Appellee (2020) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · pinpoints (c) at ¶10
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.