Business insurance for Acupuncturists


Restoring the body’s natural healing process through acupuncture is at the heart of what you do – business insurance can help ensure that remains your focus.

As an acupuncturist, you work hard to rebalance vital energy, or qi, for your clients. Unfortunately, claims can arise. You might need to replace equipment or an injury could mean you can’t perform healing treatments.

Tailor an insurance policy for your acupuncture practice and keep the energy of your business flowing.
 

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Why choose Hiscox for your acupuncture insurance?


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Saving you time and moneyOur new combined professional, treatment and public liability insurance could save an acupuncturist time and money by including multiple types of cover

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Specialists on hand

Access to a dedicated claims team, who understand acupuncture, can help to fix issues as fast as possible

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Support that goes above and beyondNeed help with a difficult situation? Hiscox customers receive access to our complementary legal support helpline through the Business Support Hub

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Why do acupuncturists need insurance?


Injury or illness

Treatment for one of your clients has successfully stimulated energy flow along their meridians and has helped ease the symptoms of a long-standing respiratory illness. However, you receive a call out of the blue to inform you their symptoms have flared since the last session and a claim is now being filed against you. Your combined professional, treatment and public liability insurance policy can help to protect your acupuncture business against such problems. Get financial help with compensation, legal expenses or the medical fees you could be asked to pay.

Damage or distress

After a session of acupressure, your client discovers their t-shirt has been torn on your treatment table. Separately, someone slips on an unmarked wet floor in your clinic bathroom and sustains a rib injury from the fall. Should these clients decide to make a claim against your business, for injury or property damage, the cost of defending yourself could quickly mount. As a business offering acupuncture therapies, you will regularly deal with members of the public. A combined professional, treatment and public liability insurance policy could help financially if they claim.

Personal injury

Healing others is your primary focus and working with fine needles requires a steady hand. Outside of working hours, you drop a heavy weight on your wrist at the gym – after a visit to A&E, you’re told you need to wear a cast. With one hand out of action, you’re unable to treat clients for over a month. Personal accident insurance can keep your finances in order by paying a weekly sum if you or a key employee can’t work for more than two weeks.

What insurance is available for acupuncturists?


Professional treatment liability insurance and public liability insurance can be helpful for acupuncturists. So, we have combined them into one product – professional, treatment and public liability insurance. Though we talk about them separately below, professional, treatment and public liability insurance is a combined cover with one combined limit. You can get public liability cover as an acupuncturist by purchasing this combined cover. Contact us to discuss your cover needs.

As a practitioner of acupuncture, other covers could also be relevant to add to your policy – such as personal accident insurance and cover relating to equipment, cyber and data and property.

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These are just some of the types of business insurance we can offer for acupuncturists. We can provide other specific types of cover and build them into a policy that’s tailored to the exact needs of your business.

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Insurance for acupuncturists: FAQs


What equipment insurance do I need?

When it comes to protecting your acupuncture equipment, there are different types of business insurance to consider adding to your policy.

Kit that’s always used in one location may require different cover in comparison to items that are taken out and about. Acupuncture practitioners who welcome patients into their clinic may benefit from protecting their therapy table, needles and guide tubes with property insurance.

Mobile acupuncturists without a fixed location, however, might require portable equipment cover to take care of their valuable therapy kit.

Can I include other types of treatment as part of my acupuncture insurance?

Should you offer other types of treatment to your clients, ensure you state what this involves on your quote form and that all business activities are declared. Hiscox can then review your case accordingly.

The act of restoring the balance of vital energy in the body is closely linked to other pain management and wellness therapies. Due to this, as a complementary health practitioner, you might offer other types of services in addition to acupuncture.

So, whether you’re dealing with a musculoskeletal complaint or a circulatory disorder, the correct insurance can help you work with confidence. If you perform services such as physiotherapy and osteopathy, take care to tell us about these activities when you buy insurance. If you only purchase insurance for acupuncture work, this is all that is covered.

Do I need proof of qualifications to get insurance?

No, you don’t need to produce your acupuncture qualifications in order to get business insurance with Hiscox.

However, it may be important to note that if you need to make a claim, you will likely be asked to prove that you’re a qualified practitioner. Providing inaccurate or incomplete information may affect our ability to pay out in the event of a claim, so if you aren’t sure how your profession is classed or if you perform additional services, tell us about your situation at the time of applying for insurance.

Should you require further information about qualification requirements to practise this ancient therapy, head to the British Acupuncture Council website (external link).


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