Government liability: special districts: indemnification.

Existing law governs the tort liability and immunity of public entities and their officers and employees, claims and actions against public entities and their officers and employees, insurance indemnification, and the defense and indemnification of public officers and employees. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to defend a public or private provider of health care, as defined, and its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, against any claim that the civil rights of a person in state custody were violated in the provision of health care services. Existing law provides for the indemnification of any provider of health care, and its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, who are defended pursuant to that provision by the Attorney General, or other legal counsel provided by the state, as specified. This bill would require the Attorney General to defend a special district, and its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, against any claim for damages arising from any authorized recreational use of public lands of the special district, and would require the state to indemnify a claim for damages arising therefrom, except as specified.