Malpractice insurance

9/27/09 -- A lot of activity is now underway to open the practice on time by December 1st. We've received a malpractice insurance policy from Medical Protective for the first year of patient care. Even this seemingly simple act took over a month to accomplish, requiring time for searching for companies, researching possible price quotes, and agreeing finally on a single insurance company to sell the policy. It seems like emailing works well, but we discovered that often there are several levels of management in the companies which add weeks to waiting for price quotes and underwriting to be done. Even after the agreement to purchase, it seems to take a week in general to generate a policy number. Much different from simply buying auto or home insurance.