62-1-203 - Accountants serving on review committees Immunity. - Tennessee Statutes

62-1-203. Accountants serving on review committees Immunity.

(a)  Any certified public accountant or public accountant who serves on any review committee is immune from liability with respect to any action taken by the accountant in good faith as a member of the review committee.

(b)  Certified public accountants and public accountants, and any other individual appointed to or authorized to perform administrative services for any review committee, are immune from liability for furnishing information, data, reports or records to any review committee or for damages resulting from any decisions, opinions, actions and proceedings rendered, entered or acted upon by the review committees undertaken or performed within the scope or functions of the duties of the review committees, if made or taken in good faith and without malice and on the basis of facts reasonably known or reasonably believed to exist.

[Acts 1991, ch. 274, § 1.]