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When explaining the relationship between professional liability insurance and intentional torts, the insurer is not obligated to either protect or provide coverages for intentional torts demonstrated by a physician and/or a healthcare organization (Pozgar, 2016, p. 521). For the most part, it seems reasonable why professional liability insurance does not cover intentional torts, because the careless and inappropriate acts purposely performed by a physician and healthcare organization towards patients.
When defining the term, intentional tort, Pozgar (2015) simply states that intentional tort committed deliberately, which the act is purposely intentional and the wrongdoer realized the consequences of the deliberate acts they performed. In my


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