Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 632.755

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1g)   
      (a)    A disability insurance policy may not exclude a person or a person’s dependent from coverage because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44.
      (b)    A disability insurance policy may not terminate its coverage of a person or a person’s dependent because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44.
      (c)    A disability insurance policy may not provide different benefits of coverage to a person or the person’s dependent because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44 than it provides to persons and their dependents who are not eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or for early intervention services under s. 51.44.
   (2)   Benefits provided by a disability insurance policy shall be primary to those benefits provided under ch. 49 or under s. 51.44 or 253.05.