I. Without otherwise limiting or defining the sovereign immunity of the state and its agencies, this chapter shall apply to all claims against any nonprofit entity, or any employee, trustee, or director of such nonprofit entity when acting in the scope of such person‘s elected or appointed capacity and not in a wanton or reckless manner, arising out of clinical services of psychiatrists, other medical doctors, or psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners provided in accordance with any contract limited to such services entered into by the department of corrections.
II. This section shall apply only to claims or civil actions arising out of incidents occurring after the effective date of this section.

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 99-D:9

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

III. [Repealed.]