“California has no room for good Samaritans”

Los Angeles Times:

The California Supreme Court has given fresh meaning to "no good deed goes unpunished." It ruled last week that a woman who yanked a co-worker from a crashed car four years ago, and may have made her injuries worse, can be sued because what she did wasn't medical care.

I have no insight into whether the decision was legally correct, and I think the question of what the law should say falls to legislators, not to judges… but the current legal situation seems to me run counter to the public interest.  Perhaps the state legislature will take this up and amend the law, ideally before the entire state goes bankrupt, shuts down, and sinks into the Pacific.  (An additional provision banishing all personal injury attorney within the state to a deserted island in the South Pacific would be a welcome addition, but optional in my view, at least for now.)