§ 8.57. Insurance
A corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or who, while a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise, against liability asserted against or incurred by him or her in that capacity or arising from his or her status as a director, officer, employee, or agent, whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify him or her against the same liability under section 8.51 or 8.52 of this title. (Added 1993, No. 85, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 11A - Vermont Business Corporations
Chapter 8 - Directors and Officers
§ 8.01. Requirement for and duties of board of directors
§ 8.02. Qualifications of directors
§ 8.03. Number and election of directors
§ 8.04. Election of directors by certain classes of shareholders
§ 8.05. Terms of directors generally
§ 8.06. Staggered terms for directors
§ 8.07. Resignation of directors
§ 8.08. Removal of directors by shareholders
§ 8.09. Removal of directors by judicial proceeding
§ 8.11. Compensation of directors
§ 8.21. Action without meeting
§ 8.30. General standards for directors
§ 8.33. Liability for unlawful distributions; statute of limitations
§ 8.43. Resignation and removal of officers
§ 8.44. Contract rights of officers
§ 8.50. Subchapter definitions
§ 8.51. Authority to indemnify
§ 8.52. Mandatory indemnification
§ 8.54. Court-ordered indemnification
§ 8.55. Determination and authorization of indemnification
§ 8.56. Indemnification of officers, employees, and agents