El aseguramiento de la responsabilidad civil profesional en la práctica de la podología
- Perea Pérez, Bernardo
- Albarrán Juan, María Elena
- Santiago Sáez, Andrés
- Martín Muñoz, María Cristina
ISSN: 1887-7249
Any de publicació: 2011
Volum: 5
Número: 1
Pàgines: 53-61
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas
Resum
The assurance of civil professional responsibility is an obligatory requirement for the practice of the chiro-pody in the private sector, though it is very advisable to have it though only one is employed at the sanitary public assistance. It is an insurance product that covers the damages produced to patients due to the profes-sional exercise, and also the juridical defense in this circumstance.Not all the assurances of civil professional responsibility that exists on the market are similar, there are important differences that can determine its adequacy to the activity.There exist a series of information that necessarily we have to know on our assurance of civil professio-nal responsibility: if it is collective or individual (the fact that it is contracted across a Professional College it does not imply necessarily that is collective), if we have more than one assurance covering the same activity, if our society in case of having it is assured, if our assurance covers all our professional activities, if the economic coverage is suffi cient and if franchises exist, what will happen when we stop working as chiropodists, and, fi nally, making sure that should not exist periods without coverage. We have to know also the exclusions of the assurance, this is, those circumstances in which certain activities are not covered.Finally, we have to know what to do with regard to the assurance in case of legal claim or imminent risk that it happens