Title 31, Chapter 32, Section 9
( 31-32-9)
(a) The making of a living will pursuant to this chapter shall not,
for any purpose, constitute a suicide. (b) The making of a living will pursuant to this chapter shall not
restrict, inhibit, or impair in any manner the sale, procurement,
issuance, or enforceability of any policy of life insurance, nor
shall it be deemed to modify the terms of an existing policy of life
insurance. No policy of life insurance shall be legally impaired or
invalidated in any manner by the making of a living will pursuant to
this chapter or by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining
procedures from an insured patient, nor shall the making of such a
living will or the withholding or withdrawal of such life-sustaining
procedures operate to deny any additional insurance benefits for
accidental death of the patient in any case in which the terminal
condition of the patient is the result of accident, notwithstanding
any term of the policy to the contrary. (c) No physician, hospital, skilled nursing facility, or other
health provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing
disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or
nonprofit hospital service plan shall require any person to execute
a living will as a condition for being insured for, or receiving,
health care services. (d) No hospital, skilled nursing facility, or other medical or
health care facility shall prepare or offer to prepare living wills
unless specifically requested to do so by a person desiring to
execute a living will. For purposes of this article, a person in the
custody of the Department of Corrections shall not be deemed to be a
patient within the meaning of this article, nor shall a correctional
facility be deemed to be a hospital, skilled nursing facility, nor
any other medical or health care facility. |