Section 10-10-11 Effect of chapter on professional relationships; liability of members or shareholders. - Alabama Statutes

Section 10-10-11

Effect of chapter on professional relationships; liability of members or shareholders.

This chapter does not modify any law applicable to the relationship between a person furnishing professional services and a person receiving such service, including liability for tort arising out of such professional service and including the confidential relationship between the person rendering the professional service and the person receiving such professional service, if any; and all confidential relationships previously enjoyed under the laws of this state or hereinafter enacted shall remain inviolate. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the members or shareholders of any professional association organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be individually liable for the debts of, or claims against, the professional association unless such member or shareholder has personally participated in the transaction for which the debt or claim is made or out of which it arises.

(Acts 1961, No. 865, p. 1349, §6.)