Focus on Professional Liability Risk Management

In pharmacy, each pharmacist and pharmacy manager serves as a risk manager.

By using the risk management process and applying one or more techniques to controlling or eliminating the risk, you can prevent potential lawsuits, reduce their severity, or at least reduce the financial loss to you or your business. 

The best way to learn is through someone else's mistakes. By studying real claims from the files of Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, the pharmacist can gain experience analyzing professional pharmacy risks and developing techniques to prevent errors. Since our studies show over 85% of claims are caused by mechanical error (wrong tablets in the bottle; right tablets, but wrong strength; and wrong directions) several of the examples will point to ways to prevent these type errors.