As a leading advocate for the podiatry profession, the Australian Podiatry Association (APodA) strives to ensure you’re in good hands as a member. This includes providing member benefits to support you throughout your career.
The APodA Member Insurance Program in partnership with BMS, does just that. The program offers Professional Indemnity and Public & Products Liability insurance – and a suite of additional insurance policies to meet your needs as a podiatrist. Policies under the program are annually reviewed against key areas of risk and claims data to ensure the program continues to provide comprehensive cover.
Benefits of the program include:
Whether you’re starting out as a graduate podiatrist, pursuing business ownership, or practising as a seasoned professional, various cover options are available to suit your needs.
As a student, why would you need cover? Having insurance as a student helps to mitigate your risks during clinical placements and internships. Under the APodA Member Insurance Program, complimentary professional indemnity and products & public liability insurance is available to APodA student and graduate members. Lower fees are also offered as a new professional. This is to support you while starting your career.
As a working professional, sole trader and/or a business owner, you may require additional insurance to help cover other areas of risk while you practise. As a member of the APodA Member Insurance Program, you get access to a suite of additional insurance policies, all available in the BMS Portal. This includes entity insurance, business insurance, and cyber liability insurance, in addition to the core APodA Professional Indemnity and Products & Public Liability Insurance policy.
Planning on retirement? As a podiatrist, your professional obligations continue even when you have ceased practising. To support you, run off cover is available under the APodA Member Insurance Program to keep you covered when you cease practicing permanently as a podiatrist. To activate run off cover, speak to BMS on 1800 514 933 or email podiatry@bmsgroup.com to advise your retirement commencement date.
Relying on your employer’s insurance policy could mean you don’t have cover for all aspects of your work. This is true for both private and public health sector workers. Having your own professional indemnity and public & products liability insurance policy offers you control over your cover, helping you ensure it meets your needs.
With your own insurance policy under the APodA Member Insurance Program, you can
be covered for:
Join or renew your APodA membership, and you can access cover at any time.
For more information visit the APodA member insurance page.
You must be a current Australian Podiatry Association (APodA) member to be eligible to register for the APodA Member Insurance Program. You must be part of the APodA Member Insurance program in order to access additional cover. If your membership ceases you will not be offered renewal when your policy expires. In offering this insurance to our members APodA is a distributor of BMS Risk Solutions Pty Ltd (BMS) AFSL 461594, ABN 45161187980. The insurance is issued by BMS under authority with the insurer. When acting under this authority BMS acts as agent for the insurer and not as your agent. This is general advice only and BMS has not considered whether it was suitable for your personal circumstances, current objectives, needs or financial situation. Please read the Policy Wording/Product Disclosure Statement and the BMS Terms of Engagement which contains the Financial Services Guide before making a decision about purchasing this policy. As a distributor, APodA receives an annual payment from BMS which is used for insurance related marketing and professional development activities to support our members.
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