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Slips, trips and independent contractors

Insurance professional services exclusion applies to a sleep study company (US)

A Georgia US court found that the insurer did not have to defend a sleep study company from a negligent suit by the family of a deceased patient because a professional services exclusion applied to the claims in the underlying action.

Insurance: occurrence and aggregation clauses

Occurrence clauses are commonly used to effect the application of deductibles on limits by aggregating claims.

Learning from the medical malpractice crisis: avoiding the boiled frog