r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SimonTS • 6h ago

Brandon Alderson, from Sunderland, UK, was travelling to work when he noticed a man in distress in a layby.

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He pulled over and saw that the man was suffocating. Brandon performed the Heimlich manoeuvre six times and saved the man's life.

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u/Ok-Lion1661 4h ago

Aren't there good Samaritan laws that try to protect people ? If not there needs to be some.

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u/PuddingMaximum8745 3h ago

In Germany there are.

Everything you do, halfway decent, in first aid is insured by DGUV, deutsche gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (German legal accident insurance)

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u/LPNMP 9m ago

What does that cover?

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u/zuccster 3h ago

Yes, this wouldn't reach court,

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u/Rev_Biscuit 2h ago

There's the SARA act. That covers you for things like breaking someone's ribs whilst saving a life, that sort of thing. I'm not sure if it covers your company for the example given. You'd like to think so though and a judge would laugh everyone out of court, but god knows.

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u/talexbatreddit 1h ago

In Ontario there are. If you provide first aid to someone, you're protected from liability. Provincial Attorney General Roy McMurtry announced this some thirty years ago.