After readingthe situation, explain your potential liability for her injuries and the liability of RiverNile, your employer. Consider the following issues. What might be the basis of her claims? What protection, if any, would the Minnesota Good Samaritan Law afford you and/or your employer? What defenses might you have? What might have been your liability if there were no Good Samaritan Law? Would you have gone to her aid if there were no Good Samaritan Law? Why or why not?

You are employed as a warehouse package handler for RiverNile, Incorporated, in Medena, Minnesota. You are having lunch in the breakroom with several co-workers, one of whom is a young woman about four months pregnant, sitting across the table from you. She has taken a bite of a roast beef and cheddar cheese sandwich which she purchased from the company cafeteria. She begins coughing and clutches her chest. When you were previously employed as a waiter at an Outfront Steakhouse, you were trained in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver but never had occasion to use them. You leap up and wrap your arms around her waist. You tip her forward slightly, make a fist with one hand, and position it slightly above her navel. You then grasp the fist with the other hand and press hard into her abdomen with a quick, upward thrust. As you continue the thrusts, she yells at you to stop. When you let her go, she collapses onto the floor clutching her chest, in obvious pain. "You idiot," she screams, "I was having an asthma attack." Someone has called 911. The EMT's discover you have broken two of her ribs and she may be miscarrying. They rush her to the hospital. She is treated for broken ribs and, although she doesn't lose the baby, her OB/GYN orders bed rest and light physical activity for the remainder of her pregnancy. She does not return to work and files a lawsuit against you and RiverNile.