444.18 Insurance on certain contestants. Any licensee authorized to conduct professional contests or amateur unarmed combat sports 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 unarmed combat sports contest.
History: 1991 a. 316; 2003 a. 285; 2009 a. 111; 2015 a. 277.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 444 - Regulation of unarmed combat sports.
444.02 - Licenses and permits.
444.03 - Application for license; fee.
444.04 - Promoter and club reports.
444.05 - Amateur boxing contests.
444.09 - Conduct of boxing contests regulated.
444.095 - Conduct of unarmed combat sports contests regulated.
444.10 - Physician to examine professional boxing contestants.
444.11 - Licenses to matchmakers, referees, contestants, etc.
444.12 - Referee to stop contest.
444.13 - Sham contests, license revoked.
444.14 - Sham contests; contestants penalized; forfeitures; hearing.
444.15 - Reports; examination of books and officers.
444.16 - Violation, when a misdemeanor.
444.18 - Insurance on certain contestants.