Section 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.

1991 a. 316 ; 2003 a. 285 ; 2009 a. 111 ; 2015 a. 277 .

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This section is shown as amended eff. 3-1-17 by 2015 Wis. Act 277 . Prior to 3-1-17 it reads: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 444.18 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. Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1