Medical Malpractice Coverage Built Around Today’s Risks
Florida Medical Malpractice Insurance
Medical malpractice coverage built around your specialty, claims history, and career.
Island Insurance Group helps physicians, surgeons, medical groups, and healthcare professionals compare malpractice coverage, understand claims-made and occurrence options, evaluate tail exposure, and protect prior acts when changing carriers.
Independent specialists
A malpractice review should challenge assumptions—not simply repeat last year’s policy.
Medical malpractice insurance is not interchangeable. Policy form, retroactive date, consent-to-settle language, defense provisions, tail options, limits, specialty, claims history, employment status, procedures, and ownership structure can materially affect both price and protection.
What we review
- Claims-made versus occurrence structure
- Retroactive date and prior-acts protection
- Tail or extended-reporting obligations
- Policy limits, deductibles, and defense treatment
- Consent-to-settle and related policy conditions
- Coverage for entities, employees, and additional locations
Who benefits from a fresh review
- Physicians approaching renewal or retirement
- Doctors changing employers, groups, or carriers
- Practices adding procedures, locations, or clinicians
- Physicians with prior claims or licensing concerns
- Groups that have not tested the market recently
- Medical professionals uncertain about tail responsibility
Carrier access
Access to established medical professional liability markets.
Carrier availability, appetite, financial-strength ratings, terms, and pricing vary by specialty, location, procedures, claims history, limits, and underwriting. We evaluate available options based on the actual risk profile.
Additional markets may be available. Carrier references do not guarantee eligibility, pricing, terms, financial-strength rating, or placement.
Who we serve
Built for different physician career stages and practice models.
Individual Physicians
Coverage reviews for solo practitioners, employed physicians seeking individual protection, locum tenens professionals, and doctors comparing independent market options.
Group Practices
Programs for physician groups, partnerships, outpatient offices, urgent care, multi-location organizations, and practices adding clinicians or new procedures.
Retiring or Transitioning Physicians
Guidance involving tail coverage, extended-reporting endorsements, prior acts, retirement provisions, and the timing of carrier or employer transitions.
Physicians With Claims History
Market exploration for physicians whose prior claims, licensing events, procedures, or specialty may require a more strategic underwriting presentation.
Policy structure
Claims-made versus occurrence coverage.
The correct structure depends on availability, specialty, cost, employment agreement, career stage, and how prior acts will be protected. Neither form is automatically better.
Claims-Made Coverage
Coverage generally depends on the claim being made while the policy is active and the underlying incident occurring on or after the applicable retroactive date.
- Retroactive date must be preserved correctly
- Tail coverage may be needed when coverage ends
- Prior-acts treatment matters when changing carriers
- Premiums may develop over the early policy years
Occurrence Coverage
Coverage generally responds based on when the incident occurred, provided the event happened during the policy period and remains within the policy terms.
- Tail coverage is generally not required for covered occurrences
- Availability may be limited by specialty or market
- Premium may be higher than early claims-made pricing
- Policy terms and limits still require careful review
Coverage lines
Protect the physician and the business around the physician.
Medical malpractice is only one part of a healthcare organization’s risk profile. A coordinated review may also identify operational, cyber, employment, property, and management exposures.
Medical Professional Liability
Claims-made or occurrence coverage for qualifying physicians, clinicians, entities, and groups.
Tail Coverage
Extended-reporting options for retirement, carrier changes, employment transitions, or policy cancellation.
General Liability
Premises and operational liability for offices, clinics, and qualifying healthcare facilities.
Cyber Liability
Coverage considerations for ransomware, privacy events, breach response, data restoration, and interruption.
Employment Practices Liability
Protection involving allegations such as wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
Management Liability
Coverage considerations for directors, officers, fiduciary duties, governance, and organizational decisions.
Our process
A structured review without unnecessary pressure.
The goal is to understand the current policy first, then determine whether a market comparison is warranted.
Initial Conversation
Discuss specialty, procedures, locations, employment status, claims history, current coverage, and renewal timing.
Declarations Page Review
Review carrier, limits, policy form, retroactive date, named insureds, premium, and material endorsements.
Market Evaluation
Present the risk to suitable available markets and compare terms, conditions, pricing, and transition requirements.
Decision and Transition
Coordinate effective dates, prior-acts protection, tail obligations, applications, and cancellation timing when appropriate.
Physician education
Continue learning before renewal or a carrier change.
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Explore insurance tools →Frequently asked questions
Medical malpractice insurance questions physicians ask most.
These answers provide general education. Actual coverage depends on the policy language, carrier, state, underwriting, employment agreement, and facts.
What is claims-made medical malpractice insurance?
Claims-made coverage generally requires the claim to be made while the policy is active and the incident to occur on or after the applicable retroactive date. When the policy ends, tail coverage or replacement prior-acts protection may be needed.
What is occurrence malpractice insurance?
Occurrence coverage generally responds based on when the incident occurred, provided it happened during the policy period and remains within the policy terms. Tail coverage is generally not required for covered occurrences.
What is tail coverage?
Tail coverage, also called an extended-reporting endorsement, allows certain claims to be reported after a claims-made policy ends for incidents that occurred during the covered period and after the applicable retroactive date.
Can a physician change malpractice carriers without losing prior-acts coverage?
Potentially, yes. The new policy may provide prior-acts coverage back to the existing retroactive date, or the physician may need tail coverage from the former carrier. The dates and policy terms must be coordinated carefully.
How much does medical malpractice insurance cost in Florida?
Pricing varies widely by specialty, county, procedures, policy form, limits, claims history, years in practice, entity structure, carrier, and other underwriting factors. A reliable estimate requires an actual risk review.
What malpractice limits should a physician carry?
Appropriate limits depend on specialty, contracts, hospital requirements, group arrangements, state environment, assets, procedures, and risk tolerance. Common limits do not automatically mean adequate limits.
Does employer-provided malpractice insurance cover everything?
Not necessarily. Physicians should review who is named, whether coverage is individual or shared, how outside work is treated, who controls the defense, what happens after employment ends, and who is responsible for tail coverage.
What information is usually needed for a malpractice quote?
Typical underwriting information may include an application, current declarations page, loss runs, curriculum vitae, license information, procedures, locations, hours, employment details, claims explanations, and requested effective date.
Confidential coverage review
Protect the retroactive date, policy terms, and career behind the premium.
Schedule a no-pressure conversation with Samuel Bennett, licensed insurance agent, to review medical malpractice coverage, tail exposure, prior acts, or a potential carrier change.