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  • Employee dishonesty

    Employee dishonesty

    Someone breaking into your premises or stealing goods at knife point is an obvious threat to any business.  But as claims reported to Guild Insurance show, they’re not the only crimes oc...

  • Understanding Employment Law

    Understanding employment law

    Employment-related disputes are an increasing trend in claims reported to Guild Insurance. These claims indicate that some employers may not be fully aware of their workplace rights and obligations...

  • Keeping treatment tables safe

    Keeping treatment tables safe

    It may surprise you to know that Guild Insurance continues to receive reports of patient injuries related to treatment tables.     

    No one sets out to have a patient inj...

  • Let the records show...

    Let the record show…

    Clinical record keeping is unfortunately one of those dreaded risk management topics. Guild Insurance understands that it isn’t the most interesting of topics for health practitioners to spend t...
  • Incident management for early learning centres

    Incident management for early learning centres

    Guidelines regarding what to do in the event of an incident

    Any matter that has required a notification to your regulatory authority, or has led t...

  • Why has my osteopath touched me there?

    Guild Insurance sees numerous allegations against osteopaths each year where the patient claims the osteopath has touched them in an inappropriate sexual way during treatment. Receiving and dealing...

  • Why has my chiropractor touched me there?

    Guild Insurance has seen a gradual increase in the number of allegations against chiropractors where the patient claims the chiropractor has behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner during treatm...

  • Woman planking with stress ball

    Keeping exercise balls safe