Sec. 20-94c. Advanced practice registered nurses. Professional liability insurance required.

(a) Each person licensed as an advanced practice registered nurse under the provisions of section 20-94a 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. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any advanced practice registered nurse licensed pursuant to section 20-94a and maintaining current certification from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists who provides such services under the direction of a licensed physician.

(b) Each insurance company that issues professional liability insurance, as defined in subdivisions (1), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (10) of subsection (b) of section 38a-393, shall on and after January 1, 2000, render to the Commissioner of Public Health a true record of the names and addresses, according to classification, of cancellations of and refusals to renew professional liability insurance policies and the reasons for such cancellation or refusal to renew said policies for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding.

(P.A. 99-168, S. 6; P.A. 00-135, S. 12, 21.)

History: P.A. 00-135 amended Subsec. (a) by adding exception re certification from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, effective May 26, 2000.