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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Choose your cover
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
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
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!
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
Cover for Doctors
Cover for Allied Health Practitioners
Medical Students & First Year House Officers
FREE OF CHARGE
Dental Students / Dental House Surgeons
FREE OF CHARGE
Senior Medical Professional
$1522.60
Limited Income Practitioner
annual income less than $50,000
$1100.55
Registrars
$575.00
House Officer
second and subsequent years
$493.35
Dentists / Dental Surgeons
$1037.30
Audiologists
$844.10
Nurse/Physician Assistant
$418.60
Physiotherapists
$288.65
Radiographers/Sonographers
$192.05
Please Note
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*All prices include the Medicus Administration fee
*All prices include GST
*NZMA Members receive 10% discount on the above prices
Technicians / Research Scientists
$141.45
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
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You can contact Gaeline Phipps at: gphipps@professionallaw.co.nz
Dr Peter Robinson
Principal Medicolegal Advisor
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You can contact Dr Peter Robinson at:
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.