Monday, December 29, 2008

Professional Liability Insurance: independent insurance cover for professionals

Companies hire professionals with a belief that they will add their expert knowledge and skills to assigned tasks to the best of their abilities. Apart from their services, professionals are expected to work as per the standard code of conduct to offer a leading edge to client companies. However, being human only, sometimes professionals may fail to comply with the set code of conduct and thus, they can be dragged to court for losses that they have caused to their clients. A professional liability insurance policy protects professionals in cases when they have to pay a heavy compensation for their professional acts.

Professional liability insurance is an independent insurance cover designed specially for professionals against loss occurred from professional negligence, error or omission while working for their clients.

Nowadays, many insurers provide professional liability insurance policies. Visit their offices or look through internet and choose the best insurance policy for your needs.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Professional Indemnity Insurance – safeguarding the professionals

Professional Indemnity Insurance gives monetary safeguard for active professionals and advisers. This policy covers the compensation you may need to pay for third party claims and also the legal costs incurred to fix these claims like negligence, civil liability, violation of confidentiality or duty or any other claims.

If required these insurance companies offer expertise of their claims staff with knowledge of the insurers’ industry and even skilled legal staff for the defense of insurer. You can seek the aid of insurance broker or company to determine covers required in your particular profession to protect you from all possible disputes. In various countries, requirements of Professional Indemnity Insurance (PI) are varied, so you must make sure that you have the whole cover you may require.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Professional indemnity insurance

Indemnity health insurance plan is a health insurance policy in which the insured person can choose any hospital, doctor or health care service of his or her choice, without the need to get approval from insurance company. In this insurance plan, you will be required to pay the deductible amount, the co-insurance or co-payment and any extra charges that your chosen health care professional charges apart from what your insurance company has considered customary and usual.

One of the benefits of a professional indemnity insurance policy is that if your medical expenses reach the annual out of pocket maximum amount during a year, you will not be required to pay any coinsurance. The best thing is that these insurance plans come with more flexibility and more coverage, which are extremely beneficial for the insured person.