Chapter 148 — MEDICAL SOCIETIES
16 sections in this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 148.01 Definition
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148.01 Definition. In this chapter, “medical society” means the State Medical Society of Wisconsin and any county medical society organized or continued under this chapter. History: 1987 a. 13; 2001 a. 103.
Wis. Stat. § 148.015 State society
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148.015 State society. (1) The State Medical Society of Wisconsin is continued with the general powers of a corporation. It may from time to time adopt, alter, and enforce constitution, bylaws, and regulations for admission and expulsion of members, election of officers, and mana…
Wis. Stat. § 148.02 County societies
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148.02 County societies. (1) The physicians and surgeons, not less than 5 in number, of the several counties, except those counties where a county medical society already exists, may meet at such time and place at the county seat as a majority agree upon and organize a county med…
Wis. Stat. § 148.03 Service insurance corporations for health care
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148.03 Service insurance corporations for health care. The state medical society or, in a manner approved by the state society, a county society, may establish in one or more coun- 148.09 148.11 148.13 148.15 148.17 148.19 148.21 148.23 Medical society may limit indemnification. …
Wis. Stat. § 148.04 Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisions
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148.04 Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisions. In ss. 148.04 to 148.17: (1) “Director or officer” means any of the following: (a) A natural person who is or was a director or officer of a medical society. (b) A natural person who, while a director or o…
Wis. Stat. § 148.05 Mandatory indemnification
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148.05 Mandatory indemnification. (1) A medical society shall indemnify a director or officer, to the extent he or she has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of a proceeding, for all reasonable expenses incurred in the proceeding if the director or officer …
Wis. Stat. § 148.06 Determination of right to indemnification
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148.06 Determination of right to indemnification. Unless otherwise provided by the constitution or bylaws or by written agreement between the director or officer and the medical society, the director or officer seeking indemnification under s. 148.05 (2) shall select one of the f…
Wis. Stat. § 148.07 Allowance of expenses as incurred
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148.07 Allowance of expenses as incurred. Upon written request by a director or officer who is a party to a proceeding, a medical society may pay or reimburse his or her reasonable expenses as incurred if the director or officer provides the medical society with all of the follow…
Wis. Stat. § 148.09 Medical society may limit indemnification
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148.09 Medical society may limit indemnification. (1) A medical society’s obligations to indemnify under s. 148.05 may be limited as follows: (a) With respect to the state medical society or, except as provided in s. 148.02 (4), a county medical society organized under s. 148.02 …
Wis. Stat. § 148.11 Additional rights to indemnification and allowance of expenses
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148.11 Additional rights to indemnification and allowance of expenses. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), ss. 148.05 and 148.07 do not preclude any additional right to indemnification or allowance of expenses that a director or officer may have under any of the following: (a) Th…
Wis. Stat. § 148.13 Court-ordered indemnification
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148.13 Court-ordered indemnification. (1) Except as provided otherwise by written agreement between the director or officer and the medical society, a director or officer who is a party to a proceeding may apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to ano…
Wis. Stat. § 148.15 Indemnification and allowance of expenses of employees and agents
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148.15 Indemnification and allowance of expenses of employees and agents. A medical society may indemnify and allow reasonable expenses of an employee or agent who is not a director or officer to the extent provided by the constitution or bylaws, by general or specific action of …
Wis. Stat. § 148.17 Insurance
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148.17 Insurance. A medical society may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is an employee, agent, director or officer of the medical society against liability asserted against and incurred by the individual in his or her capacity as an employee, agent,…
Wis. Stat. § 148.19 Reliance by directors or officers
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148.19 Reliance by directors or officers. Unless the director or officer has knowledge that makes reliance unwarranted, a director or officer, in discharging his or her duties to the medical society, may rely on information, opinions, reports or statements, any of which may be wr…
Wis. Stat. § 148.21 Consideration of interests in addition to members’ interests
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148.21 Consideration of interests in addition to members’ interests. In discharging his or her duties to the medical society and in determining what he or she believes to be in the best interests of the medical society, a director or officer may, in addition to considering the ef…
Wis. Stat. § 148.23 Limited liability of directors and officers
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148.23 Limited liability of directors and officers. (1) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), a director or officer is not liable to the medical society, its members or creditors, or any person asserting rights on behalf of the medical society, its members or creditors, or any…