About medical and midwife professional indemnity insurance

What is medical and midwife professional indemnity insurance

This type of indemnity insurance is a specialised form of insurance cover that pays for the costs of malpractice claims.

Why is it important

Professional indemnity insurance:

• protects the private assets of practitioners from malpractice claims
• helps practitioners to focus on providing high quality services.

Practitioners must have indemnity insurance to register with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

Who is it for

Medical and midwife professional indemnity insurance is for:

• doctors
• allied health professionals
• midwives.

When is it used

Professional indemnity insurance is triggered when a practitioner’s negligence causes an adverse incident.

What we’re doing

We oversee the medical and midwife professional indemnity insurance schemes to make indemnity insurance more affordable for practitioners in private practice. We also administer and review the legislation that underpins the schemes as needed.

Find out more about what we’re doing.

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