Medical Malpractice Insurance in Pennsylvania: What Physician Groups Need from Their Broker
PA physician groups face MCARE rules, tail exposure and claims-made traps. See what your malpractice broker should handle. Get a quote.
PA physician groups face MCARE rules, tail exposure and claims-made traps. See what your malpractice broker should handle. Get a quote.
Learn what MCARE Pennsylvania covers, what it does not cover, and what physician practices still need for complete malpractice protection.
The Typical Situation: At renewal time, you receive a Workers Comp (“WC”) renewal quote from your insurance broker and maybe a few additional quotes from other carriers.
We’re opening up a new location and will be leasing new office space. This space was previously used as a medical office, but we will be doing a fit out over the next four months, do we need to get insurance before we officially occupy?
All of the physicians in our practice group are covered with 1M/3M limits, does the entity need to be covered as well?
We live in a very litigious world. Even when healthcare workers do their best, sometimes patients are not grateful and turn to lawyers for even the slightest mishap. Malpractice lawsuits are very common in the healthcare profession.