Some Dental Practice Changes Could Affect Your Malpractice Insurance Premiums Running your practice no doubt keeps you busy enough that thinking about how your business decisions affect your insurance premiums is probably not top priority. However, malpractice policies vary in coverage and exclusions, and the price of your malpractice insurance premiums is determined by statistical Read More…
How Much Should Dental Malpractice Insurance Cost?
The cost of a dental malpractice policy can vary greatly depending on a number of factors that often seem like a mystery. Here’s a peek behind the curtain at how your premium is determined. Spoiler alert – there’s no wizard pulling numbers out of thin air. Remember that statistics course that you suffered through as an undergrad? That’s how malpractice insurance rates are calculated. It’s all math and statistics.
What Are Your Malpractice Policy Options?
Differences in Malpractice Policy Options In the world of malpractice insurance, malpractice is defined differently by each state, but generally there are two primary malpractice policy options: Claims Made and Occurrence. What’s the big deal? As a dentist, why do you need to know the difference between the two? Why should you read on to Read More…
How You Can Get a $50 Dental Malpractice Insurance Policy
Can I Really Get a Dental Malpractice Policy For $50? Yes! If you meet the following 3 qualifications, you can get a dental malpractice insurance policy for $50 for the first year. Have you: Recently graduated from dental school, or completed a residency program? Secured your first position as a dentist? Been a member of Read More…
When To Buy Dental Malpractice Insurance
If you’re graduating dental school, you’re probably wondering, ‘when should I get dental malpractice insurance?’ There are actually 2 answers to this question, depending on your plans for after graduation. Plan #1: Graduate, take dental board exams, start working right away to pay off those student loans Many schools provide malpractice insurance coverage for the Read More…
What is Malpractice? Dental Malpractice Defined
There are numerous types of malpractice, and in the world of insurance there are several terms that are generally synonymous with malpractice, including liability, and errors and omissions, but what is malpractice in dentistry? Dental malpractice is defined differently by each state, however they are all fairly similar. The most common definition of malpractice is Read More…