611.40 Shareholders' meetings.
(1) Meetings, notices, quorums and voting. Sections 180.0701 to 180.0703, 180.0705, 180.0709, 180.0721 to 180.0727 and 180.1708 (3) apply to stock corporations. Each director of a stock corporation shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast by the shares entitled to vote in the election at a meeting at which a quorum is present.
(2) Record date and voting lists. Sections 180.0707 and 180.0720 apply to stock corporations.
(3) Voting trust. Sections 180.0730 and 180.0731 apply to stock corporations.
History: 1971 c. 260, 307; 1973 c. 184; 1989 a. 303; 1997 a. 35; 2021 a. 114.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 611 - Domestic stock and mutual insurance corporations.
611.03 - Orders imposing and relaxing restrictions.
611.07 - General corporate powers and procedures.
611.10 - Reservation of corporate name.
611.13 - Organization permit and certificate of incorporation.
611.14 - Powers under organization permit.
611.15 - Deposit of proceeds of subscriptions.
611.16 - Termination of organization permit and payment of organization expenses.
611.18 - Incorporators' liability and organization expenses.
611.19 - Initial capital and surplus requirements.
611.20 - Certificate of authority.
611.22 - Accelerated organization procedure.
611.223 - Transfer of an insurer's place of domicile.
611.23 - Municipal insurance mutuals.
611.24 - Segregated accounts in general.
611.25 - Special provisions for separate accounts for variable contracts.
611.28 - Changes in business plan.
611.29 - Amendment of articles.
611.31 - Securities regulation.
611.33 - Authorized securities.
611.34 - Corporate repurchase of shares.
611.36 - Number of shareholders.
611.40 - Shareholders' meetings.
611.41 - Communications to shareholders or policyholders and commissioner's attendance at meetings.
611.42 - Mutual policyholders' voting rights.
611.425 - Mutual policyholders' proxy voting.
611.426 - Remote participation in policyholder meetings.
611.43 - Annual report to mutual policyholders.
611.52 - Election and removal of directors and officers of stock corporations.
611.53 - Selection and removal of directors and officers of mutuals.
611.54 - Supervision of management changes.
611.55 - Continuity of management in emergencies.
611.56 - Committees of directors.
611.57 - Interlocking directorates and other relationships.
611.60 - Transactions in which directors and others are interested.
611.61 - Transactions of insurers with affiliates.
611.62 - Directors' and officers' liability and indemnification.
611.63 - Executive compensation.
611.66 - Exclusive agency contracts.
611.67 - Management contract services.
611.69 - Dividends and other distributions.
611.71 - Acquisition of all of the shares or of a class of shares of an insurance corporation.
611.72 - Merger or other acquisition of control of a stock insurance corporation.
611.74 - Voluntary dissolution of domestic insurance corporations.
611.75 - Conversion of a domestic stock corporation into a mutual.
611.76 - Conversion of a domestic mutual into a stock corporation.
611.77 - Conversion of assessable to nonassessable and nonassessable to assessable mutuals.
611.78 - Transfer of business or assets.
611.79 - Conversion of a domestic mutual life insurance company into a fraternal.