Assured cover
Insurance is open to all Medicus members. Our cover is bound by insurance contracts from NZI - one of New Zealand’s largest and most reputable insurers - and supported by industry-leading medicolegal professionals.
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If your professional reputation and livelihood are at stake, you want to know you have an insurance contract you can rely on to provide the best medicolegal representation available without delay.
Our in-house liability team and legal advisers work together to assure professional liability indemnity, support, and guidance for every step of your career, from starting out as a student up into your retirement.
Benefits of choosing Medicus Indemnity Cover
NZ's most comprehensive professional indemnity insurance
For doctors and allied health practitioners including dentists, dental technicians, nurses, physician assistants, paramedics, anesthetic technicians, radiographers, physiotherapists and a variety of others.
Medical malpractice indemnity
Limit of Indemnity of $2,000,000 – Split $1,000,000 for claims payments and $1,000,000 for your defence costs and expenses associated with a claim.
Legal costs and expenses
Cover for legal costs and expenses incurred in responding to or defending a MOH, Medical Council, HDC or other statutory or quasi-judicial hearing, enquiry or investigation arising out of your professional conduct, competency or related to a claim or circumstance.
Medicolegal advice
Our in-house liability team and legal advisers work together to assure professional liability indemnity, support, and guidance for every step of your career.
Nil excess on claims
The excess on claims depends on the level you chose at the time that you purchase your policy. We offer members nil claims excess!
No hidden fees
All prices include the Medicus Administration fee and all prices include GST.
Cover Options
Cover for Students
We are proud to offer all NZ Medical and Dental students FREE Medical Indemnity Insurance.
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Available to all Medical and Dental students undertaking their studies in NZ.
Cover for Doctors
Insurance for registered medical practitioners carrying on practice in New Zealand.
Option 1
House Officer First Year
FREE
Option 2
House Officer Second and Subsequent Years
$523.25
Option 3
Registrar
$615.25
Option 4
Limited Income Practice; annual income less than $50,000
$1144.25
Option 5
Hospital Doctor, General Practitioner, Medico-Legal Practitioner, Paediatrician, Pathologist, Physician, Psychiatrist, Radiologist, Anaesthetist, Gynaecologist, Obstetrician, Surgeon, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
$1500.75
Cover for other health practitioners
Insurance for qualified health practitioners carrying on practice in New Zealand.
Option 1
Research Scientists, Clinical Trial Technicians, Laboratory Technicians, Medical Laboratory Scientists
$161.00
Option 2
Radiographers, Clinical Dental Technicians, Sonographers
$207.00
Option 3
Physiotherapists
$310.50
Option 4
Nurses, Clinical Perfusionists, Anaesthetic Technicians, Paramedics
$437.00
Option 5
Audiologist, Physician Associates/Assistants, Nurse Practitioners
$833.75
Option 6
Dental Surgeons, Dentists
$1075.25
Our medicolegal team
NZI engage with a variety of other law firms and lawyers through-out NZ, with particular medico-legal experience and expertise on an as required basis.
Gaeline Phipps
Long-standing member of Medicus Legal Panel
You can contact Gaeline Phipps at: gphipps@professionallaw.co.nz
Dr Peter Robinson
Principal Medicolegal Advisor
You can contact Dr Peter Robinson at:
probinson@medico-legal.co.nz
Apply for cover now
To apply for Medicus cover, please fill in one of our membership forms (found on the Homepage) as well as one of the cover forms below and send them both back to nz.medicus@aon.com
