Sec. 3.
As used in this act:
(a) "Child social welfare program" means a child welfare residential or home-based program, a program involving foster care coordination including adoption activities, a respite care program, or behavioral health or early education services operating under contract and as an agent for the department of human services.
(b) "Gross negligence" means conduct or a failure to act that is so reckless that it demonstrates a substantial lack of concern for whether an injury will result.
(c) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, other than a governmental agency.
(d) "Social services agency" means a person, other than an individual, that is licensed by this state to provide child social welfare programs.
(e) "Willful misconduct" means conduct or a failure to act that is intended to harm the plaintiff.
History: 2012, Act 590, Imd. Eff. Jan. 7, 2013
Last modified: October 10, 2016