2009 Iowa Code
Title 13 - Commerce
Subtitle 1 - Insurance and Related Regulation
CHAPTER 519 - LIABILITY INSURANCE == CERTAIN PROFESSIONS
519.1 - AUTHORIZATION.

        519.1  AUTHORIZATION.
         Any number of physicians and surgeons, osteopathic physicians and
      surgeons, podiatric physicians, chiropractors, pharmacists, dentists,
      and graduate nurses, licensed to practice their profession in this
      state, and hospitals licensed under chapter 135B, may, by complying
      with the provisions of this chapter and without regard to other
      statutory provisions, 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.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 9069; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
      75, 77, 79, 81, § 519.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         95 Acts, ch 108, §19; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
         Action on liability policy, chapter 516