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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, April 15, 1986
Medical bill shifts liability
By Lynn Maree Ross
The University of Kansas Medical Center will have the responsibility of self-insuring its medical students if a bill passed by the Kansas Legislature last week is signed by Gov John Carlin.
The Legislature passed a bill that would require the Med Center to provide liability insurance for its medical students. However, the state would remain financially responsible for any claims against a student.
The shift of responsibility means the hospital won't have a formal insurance policy, but the state must provide a lawyer and pay any claims awarded in a suit involving a student.
The Med Center's request for
$150,000 to pay off the present student policy, prompted the Senate Ways and Means Committee to discuss ways of easing liability insurance costs to the state, Marlin Rein, associate hospital administrator, said yesterday.
In fiscal year 1985, liability insurance for KU medical students cost the state $24,000, he said, but increased to $175,000 for fiscal year 1986. The committee approved the request, but also drafted the bill shifting the responsibility of insuring the students to the Med Center.
The House and Senate passed the bill late last week, but it doesn't seem to bother state legislators or Med Center officials.
"The increase in insurance premiums from the losses we have had on students has been nil." State Sen. Gus Hall, chair of the committee, said.
Rein said, "The likelihood of them getting sued is minuscule.
The Med Center is not new to the role of insurer. Last year, to ease increased insurance costs, the Legislature gave the Med Center the responsibility of insuring its interns.
Interns, medical professionals returning for additional schooling, work directly with patients. Bogina said medical students treated patients only when a physician was present, making the physician, not the student, liable.
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