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Paragraph 4 Prescribed risks

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An indemnity arrangement must cover the following risks—

(a)

any legal liability for any negligent act, error or omission in professional services rendered or which should have been rendered by an osteopath whilst practising as an osteopath;

(b)

any liability for claims for public liability or product liability arising from death or injury to third parties or damage to third party property caused by the osteopath in the course of providing professional services or in the course of supplying products in connection with those services;

(c)

any legal liability of an osteopath in respect of the risks set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) which are attributable to that osteopath’s employees, partners, associates, co-directors or agents and which are connected with the provision of osteopathic services on behalf of, or under, that osteopath’s supervision;

(d)

any liability to pay any or all legal costs, of and incidental to all proceedings which may be recovered by a claimant against an osteopath arising out of any claim in respect of the prescribed risks; and

(e)

all or any costs, fees and expenses which may be incurred by an osteopath in defending any claim in respect of the risks set out in paragraphs (a) to (d).

Notes on Schedule

Footnotes

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1993 c. 21. Section 37 of the Act was amended by the Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) 2014. (S.I. 2014/1887)