professional liability insurance
Also known as: malpractice insurance
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- In insurance: Professional liability insurance
Known as malpractice, or errors-and-omissions, insurance, professional liability contracts are distinguished from general business liability policies because of the specialized nature of the liability. Professional persons requiring liability contracts include physicians and surgeons, lawyers, accountants, engineers, and insurance agents. Important differences between…
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form of liability insurance
- In liability insurance
Product liability and malpractice insurance present special problems because of the increasingly high cost of court awards of damages and because of the public’s high expectations of product safety and physician performance. An additional problem for product liability insurance is that the courts have tended to award damages…
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