The Japan Medical Association will establish a system to insure doctors against medical accidents to help them cope with soaring amounts of compensation being demanded in malpractice suits.
The JMA's board of representatives will ask doctors and medical institutions to become policyholders of the new insurance, which will pay out up to 200 million yen in medical accident cases.
This is in addition to current insurance policies, which already pay up to 100 million yen, JMA officials said Sunday.