Liability Insurance, Students Enrolled in Health Components

   

Purpose:

 

Policy requiring students to show evidence of professional liability insurance when enrolled in health component institutions

 

Date Approved:

 

December 6, 1979

 

Background:

 

Authorization to require students to show evidence of professional liability insurance when enrolled in the health component institutions of the U. T. System.

 

NOTE:  The following policy is provided as historical background.  Student liability insurance is currently handled as an incidental fee under Section 54.504, Texas Education Code.

 

 

 

Policy on Requirement for
Professional Liability Insurance

 

 

Effective with the fall 1980 enrollment, all students enrolled in a health component institution of The University of Texas System in a program that involves direct patient care activities shall be required to purchase professional liability insurance as a prerequisite to enrollment.  Such coverage shall be for at least $5,000 per incident/$15,000 per year, however, the chief administrative officer of the institution may set higher minimum amounts for specific programs that involve greater risk.  This policy does not obviate the requirement for nursing students enrolled in a general academic institution.

 

It was ordered that the next appropriate catalog published at each of the component institutions be amended to conform to this action.

 

 

Last reviewed September 2000