Doctors indemnity not for Hospital: SC
The Supreme Court has recently observed that if a hospital is not the beneficiary of the insurance policies, which have been obtained by doctors to cover the discharge of their own professional negligence, a joint and several liabilities could not be fastened on the insurer to cover the claims made to a hospital.
Upholding the order of the NCDRC, the Apex court bench comprising of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna noted, "The hospital was not the beneficiary of the insurance policies which were obtained by the doctors to cover the discharge of their own professional obligations. There was a manifest error on the part of the District Forum as well as the State Commission. The NCDRC had a valid basis to exercise its revisional jurisdiction."
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Doctors Indemnity Not For Hospital: Supreme Court
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