ARTICLE · 16 DECEMBER 1997
Guernsey is Doctors' Cure
Escalating claims against doctors and other healthcare practitioners has recently led the UK's Medical Defence Union to set up their own insurance company in Guernsey.
The Medical Defence Union Ltd. formed in 1885 is the UK's oldest medical defence organisation, providing help and advice to over 140,000 doctors, dentists, nurses and other healthcare practitioners and specialists. Today, it also provides access to legal assistance and discretionary indemnity for a membership which has expanded to include Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.
Thirty years ago claims against the members of MDU amounted to less than L30,000 in total. Today, the propensity to seek damages through litigation and other means led to MDU paying over L36,000,000 in indemnity and legal costs in 1994.
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