                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
AND MEMBERS OF ITS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS (§
15.2-1518)

Any locality and any political subdivision thereof may provide liability
insurance or self-insurance for its fire department operational medical
director, police department operational medical director, operational medical
director, physician course director for any licensed emergency medical services
agency or emergency medical services training program located therein endorsed
by the Office of Emergency Medical Services and for its officers, employees and
volunteers, including any commission or board, and employees and members
thereof, of any authority created or controlled by the local governing body, or
any local agency or public service corporation owned, operated or controlled by
such local governing body and constitutional officers and their employees.
		The insurance or self-insurance may cover the costs and expenses incident to
liability, including those for settlement, suit, or satisfaction of judgment
arising from the conduct of such operational medical directors, physician course
directors, officers, employees, members or volunteers in the discharge of their
official duties.
		For the purposes of this section, &#8220;physician course director&#8221; or
&#8220;PCD&#8221; means an EMS physician who is responsible for the clinical
aspects of emergency medical care training programs, including the clinical and
field actions of enrolled students.

HISTORY: 1987, c. 496, § 15.1-7.3:1; 1988, c. 432; 1997, c. 587; 1999, c. 151;
2004, c. 648; 2008, c. 118.