Having employees and/or independent contractors for your healthcare practice is vital to the success of your organization and the essence of providing care to individuals. Often with medical malpractice insurance, you can typically add additional mid-level and advanced-level providers to your policy as a physician or surgeon or even an entity policy.
Claims-Made, Occurrence Made, and ERP Medical Malpractice Insurance Policies
Policy forms include the claims-made, occurrence, and claims-made convertible. Typically, most policies are an occurrence made policy. However, due to a large number of claims and inflation of premiums in history, the insurance market created a policy form to reduce the burden of risk but also reduce premiums, which is the claims-made policy form. There are some caveats to be aware of which will be laid out in this blog with a healthcare-focus.
