South Dakota Statutes
§ 58-5B-2 — Malpractice insurance contracts among health care providers.
South Dakota § 58-5B-2
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Bluebook
S.D. Codified Laws § 58-5B-2 (2026).
Text
Any number of physicians and surgeons, osteopaths, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and graduate nurses, licensed to practice their profession in any of the states, and hospitals licensed under the laws of any of the states, may enter into contracts with each other for the purpose of protecting themselves by insurance against loss by reason of actions at law on account of their alleged error, mistake, negligence, or carelessness in the treatment and care of patients, including the performance of surgical operations, or in the prescribing and dispensing of drugs and medicines, or for loss by reason of damages in other respects, and to reimburse any member in case of such loss.
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Legislative History
SL 1976, ch 315, § 2.
Nearby Sections
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§ 58-1-1
Citation of title.§ 58-1-11
General saving clause.§ 58-1-13
Severability of provisions.§ 58-1-14
Notice of nonrenewal of policy must be mailed sixty days prior to renewal date--Exceptions.§ 58-1-14.1
Notice of refusal to renew--Thirty§ 58-1-16.1
Applicability of §§ 58-1-18
Repealed by SL 2012, ch 252, § 30.§ 58-1-2
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Bluebook (online)
South Dakota § 58-5B-2, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/sd/58-5B-2.