Good Samaritan laws may not be as cut-and-dried in your state as you believe. The court case of Alexandra Van Horn v. Lisa Torti in California is a case in point. Two women who were friends were driving two separate cars after a night out of partying. One woman crashed her car and the friend, fearing the wreck would catch on fire or blow up, pulled the other woman out of the car. She ended up paralyzed and sued the friend, claiming that she had pulled her out of the car "like a ragdoll."

The lower court found that she was not liable but it was reversed on appeal. The California Supreme Court found that California's Good Samaritan law did not apply to this woman because she did not provide any "emergency medical care" and simply pulled the woman from the wreck, therefore she was liable.

The state legislature has since amended the law to include non-medical aid. I don't know what ultimately happened to the friend and how much she had to pay.