SEMPRIS - Medical Professional Indemnity

SEMPRIS is the Sports & Exercise Medicine Professional Indemnity Scheme - the comprehensive indemnity scheme for all doctors whose practice includes the treatment and care of professional sportspeople. SEMPRIS was launched in August 2010 in response to the introduction of restrictive guidelines and the withdrawal of critical aspects of indemnity cover by the traditional Medical Defence Organisations (MDOs) for doctors whose practice included the treatment of professional sportspeople. SEMPRIS was not developed to compete with the benefits provided by the traditional MDOs but was, and still is, a carefully structure response to a request from doctors and professional sport to seek to establish an indemnity scheme that: ~ provides the necessary level of protection no longer provided by the traditional MDOs. ~ enables doctors to continue treating professional sportspeople in a manner that is practical and compatible with the unique demands of professional sport, secure in the knowledge that they have the appropriate indemnity protection. ~ is available, where appropriate, as an extension and therefore a complement to existing MDO cover. SEMPRIS provides doctors with non-discretionary indemnity insurance to cover: ~ damages, claimants' costs and / or defence costs relating to a claim brought by a professional sportspersons' employer, club, agent, sponsor or event organiser in relation to alleged negligent treatment of a player. ~ pre-signing medical assessments and screenings undertaken directly for clubs. ~ treatment provided when travelling overseas with teams. ~ £10m standard cover for each and every claim subject to a £20m annual aggregate, with an option to increase limits to £15m/£30 and £20m/£40m. Administered by Health Partners Europe Ltd. who are Official Healthcare Advisers to the Premier League and the England & Wales Cricket Board. Health Partners is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).