Wisconsin Statutes Health (Ch. 140 to 162) § 155.50. Duties and immunities

(a) Certifying incapacity under s. 155.05(2), if the certification is made in good faith based on a thorough examination of the principal.

(b) Failing to comply with a power of attorney for health care instrument or the decision of a health care agent, except that failure of a health care professional, as defined in s. 154.01(3), to comply constitutes unprofessional conduct if the health care professional refuses or fails to make a good faith attempt to transfer the principal to another health care professional who will comply.

(c) Complying, in the absence of actual knowledge of a revocation, with the terms of a power of attorney for health care instrument that is in compliance with this chapter or the decision of a health care agent that is made under a power of attorney for health care that is in compliance with this chapter.

(d) Acting contrary to or failing to act on a revocation of a power of attorney for health care, unless the health care facility or health care provider has actual knowledge of the revocation.

(e) Failing to obtain the health care decision for a principal from the principal's health care agent, if the health care facility or health care provider has made a reasonable attempt to contact the health care agent and obtain the decision but has been unable to do so.