Section 4742 Of Chapter 5. Immunities And Liabilities From California Probate Code >> Division 4.7. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 5.
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. (a) A health care provider or health care institution that
intentionally violates this part is subject to liability to the
aggrieved individual for damages of two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500) or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever
is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.
(b) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals,
defaces, or obliterates an individual's advance health care directive
or a revocation of an advance health care directive without the
individual's consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an
individual to give, revoke, or not to give an advance health care
directive, is subject to liability to that individual for damages of
ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or actual damages resulting from the
action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.
(c) The damages provided in this section are cumulative and not
exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.