N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling Ch. 912/20 § 28-a: Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers

* § 28-a. Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and

professional wrestlers. 1. All persons, parties or corporations having

licenses as promoters or who are licensed in accordance with section

28-b of this act shall continuously provide insurance for the protection

of licensed boxers and professional wrestlers, appearing in boxing bouts

or wrestling exhibitions. Such insurance coverage shall provide for

reimbursement to the licensed athlete for medical, surgical and hospital

care, with a minimum limit of seven thousand five hundred dollars for

injuries sustained while participating in any program operated under the

control of such licensed promoter and for a payment of one hundred

thousand dollars to the estate of any deceased athlete where such death

is occasioned by injuries received in this state during the course of a

program in which such licensed athlete or professional wrestler

participated under the promotion or control of any licensed promoter.

The commission may from time to time, in its discretion, increase the

amount of such minimum limits.

2. The failure to provide such insurance as is required by subdivision

one of this section shall be cause for the suspension or the revocation

of the license of such defaulting promoter.

* NB Repealed September 1, 2016