Rule 904.12
Rule 904.12 of the Wisconsin Statutes provides that:
(1) In actions for damages caused by personal injury, no statement
made or writing signed by the injured person within 72 hours of the time
the injury happened or accident occurred, shall be received in evidence
unless such evidence would be admissible as a present sense impression,
excited utterance or a statement of then existing mental, emotional or
physical condition as described in section 908.03(1), (2) or (3).
(2) Every person who takes a written statement from any injured
person or person sustaining damage with respect to any accident or with
respect to any injury to person or property, shall, at the time of
taking such statement, furnish to the person making such statement, a
true, correct and complete copy thereof. Any person taking or having
possession of any written statement or a copy of said statement, by any
injured person, or by any person claiming damage to property with
respect to any accident or with respect to any injury to person or
property, shall, at the request of the person who makes such statement
or the person's personal representative, furnish the person who made
such statement or his personal representative, a true, honest and
complete copy thereof within 20 days after written demand. No written
statement by any injured person or any person sustaining damage to
property shall be admissible in evidence or otherwise used or referred
to in any way or manner whatsoever in any civil action relating to the
subject matter thereof if it is made to appear that a person having
possession of such statement refused, upon the request of the person who
made the statement or the person's personal representatives, to furnish
such true, correct and complete copy thereof as herein required.
(3) This section does not apply to any statement taken by an officer
having the power to make arrests.
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