Sec. 20-126x. Professional liability insurance required, when. Amount of insurance. Reporting requirements.
Sec. 20-126x. Professional liability insurance required, when. Amount of insurance. Reporting requirements. (a) Each person licensed to practice dental hygiene
under the provisions of this chapter who provides direct patient care services shall maintain professional liability insurance or other indemnity against liability for professional
malpractice. The amount of insurance that each such person shall carry as insurance or
indemnity against claims for injury or death for professional malpractice shall not be
less than five hundred thousand dollars for one person, per occurrence, with an aggregate
of not less than one million five hundred thousand dollars.
(b) Each insurance company that issues professional liability insurance, as defined
in subdivisions (1), (6), (7), (8) and (9) of subsection (b) of section 38a-393, shall, on
and after January 1, 1997, render to the Commissioner of Public Health a true record
of the names, according to classification, of cancellations of and refusals to renew professional liability insurance policies and the reasons for such cancellations or refusal to
renew said policies for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding.
(P.A. 96-133, S. 4.)