444.18 Insurance on certain contestants. - Wisconsin Statutes

444.18

444.18 Insurance on certain contestants. Any licensee authorized to conduct professional contests or amateur mixed martial arts fighting contests shall insure each contestant participating for hospital, nursing, and medication expenses and physician's and surgeon's services according to an equitable fee schedule, not to exceed in the aggregate $25,000, to be paid to, or for the use of, any contestant to compensate for injuries sustained in any such contest; and shall insure each contestant for not less than $25,000 to be paid to the contestant's estate in the event of the contestant's death as the result of participation in such professional contest or amateur mixed martial arts fighting contest.

444.18 - ANNOT.

NOTE: This section is shown as amended eff. 9-1-10 by 2009 Wis. Act 111. Prior to 9-1-10 it reads:

444.18 - ANNOT.

444.18 Insurance on boxers. Any licensee authorized to conduct professional boxing contests shall insure each contestant participating for hospital, nursing, and medication expenses and physician's and surgeon's services according to an equitable fee schedule, not to exceed in the aggregate $500, to be paid to, or for the use of, any contestant to compensate for injuries sustained in any such contest; and shall insure each contestant for not less than $2,500 to be paid to the contestant's estate in the event of the contestant's death as the result of participation in such professional boxing contest.

444.18 - ANNOT.

History: 1991 a. 316; 2003 a. 285; 2009 a. 111.