A corporation shall indemnify a director who was wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which he was a party because he was a director of the corporation against reasonable expenses incurred by him in connection with the proceeding.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-1118
( P.A. 96-256, S. 86, 209; P.A. 97-246, S. 56, 99.)