The Good Samaritan law may not apply in a situation if the person providing assistance acts with gross negligence or intentional harm.
The Good Samaritan law in New Jersey encourages people to provide emergency care to an injured person. The law protects the people from law suits and criminal charges.
The problems that face a person who finds someone who is injured or otherwise in distress and would like to give aid, but fears being sued by that person if the result of the aid were to be less than ideal.
Give assistance to any person injured in the accident
The conclusion of first aid is to provide rapid assistant to the injured person and place the person in a comfortable position. This can be in the form of placing a bandage on the injured area and providing a sling to hold the affected part.
Good Samaritan.
They are a good samaritan.
Samaritan, philanthropist, angel, saint
A good Samaritan is one that does nice things for other. This person will often give everything they have for someone less fortunate.
How we can stop a person being injured
That no action shall lie or be maintained for civil damages in any court of this state against any person or persons, or group of persons, who in good faith, being at, or stopping at the scene of an accident, offers and administers first aid or medical attention to any person or persons injured in such accident unless it can be shown that the person or persons offering or administering first aid, is guilty of gross negligence in the care or treatment of said injured person or persons or has treated them in a grossly negligent manner. The immunity described herein shall cease upon delivery of the injured person to either a generally recognized hospital for treatment of ill or injured persons, or upon assumption of treatment in the office or facility of any person undertaking to treat said injured person or persons, or upon delivery of said injured person or persons into custody of an ambulance attendant.
It depends if the person was purposly at fault for what has injured the transportee. Although the car ride to the hospital was given, the injured person could have well called an ambulance. The judge will not see this as compassion, but an excuse for the defendant to say that even though it was their fault, they still helped the person.Another View: The basic answer to the question is: (in the US) No, virtually every (all?) states have "Good Samaritan Laws" which protect members of the general public when they render aid to persons under emergency situations.The first contributor extrapolated an unknown scenario from the question.