On and after July 24, 1975, any patient or the patient’s representative having a claim or any spouse, parent, minor sibling or child of the patient having a derivative claim for injury or death on account of malpractice is subject to this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 655.007
Patients’ claims
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Ferdon Ex Rel. Petrucelli v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2005)
Most recently applied in Estate of Anne Oros v. Divine Savior Healthcare Inc. (May 2022)
1975 c. 37, 199; 1983 a. 253; 1997 a. 89
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.