HRS §327-51
Protection from lawsuits for medical tissue and organ work
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section protects doctors, hospitals, blood banks, and others involved in donating, preparing, or transferring tissue, organs, or blood from being sued for harm, unless they were negligent or acted with intent to harm. It only covers the transfer process, not other medical care.
The statute, as written — Exemption from strict liability
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No physician, surgeon, hospital, blood bank, tissue bank, or other person or entity who donates, obtains, prepares, transplants, injects, transfuses, or otherwise transfers, or who assists or participates in obtaining, preparing, transplanting, injecting, transfusing, or otherwise transferring any tissue, organ, blood or component thereof, from one or more persons, living or dead, to another person, shall be liable as a result of any such activity, save and except that each such person or entity shall remain liable for the person's or its own negligence or wilful misconduct.
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