(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.)
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 379a - Dental Hygienists
Section 20-126i. - Application for license. Application from foreign dental school graduate.
Section 20-126j. - Examination of applicants.
Section 20-126k. - Licensure without examination.
Section 20-126l. - Definitions. Scope of practice. Limitations. Continuing education. Exceptions.
Section 20-126m. - Display of license.
Section 20-126n. - License renewal.
Section 20-126o. - Disciplinary action by the department.
Section 20-126p. - Change of residence out of state.
Section 20-126q. - False representations.
Section 20-126u. - Regulations.