Liability & Professional Risks
Liability is where a family's or a professional's exposure is least visible and most expensive when it arrives. For a household with homes in more than one country, staff, guests and a yacht, the question is whether the limits match the assets that a claim would reach. For a professional — a therapist, an architect, an adviser, a family-office director — it is whether the policy describes the activity actually carried on, and whether cover answers on the claims-made basis these policies use.
The articles below cover professional liability for advisers and therapists, the non-conventional therapies recognised in Portugal, yoga, Pilates and retreat organisers, directors and fiduciaries of family structures, and how specialist risks are placed in the Portuguese and Spanish markets. We work from €250,000 per claim for professional liability, in Portugal and in Spain.
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D&O insurance for holding companies and family offices
Owners who also manage, relatives as shareholders, money moving between entities: why D&O for a family holding is different, and how to structure it.
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Crime, payment fraud and cyber cover for a family office
A family office moves large sums on the instruction of a few trusted people. Why that makes it a target, and how crime and cyber cover respond.
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Liability insurance for yoga instructors in Portugal
Not on the regulated list, but the exposure — and the venues asking for proof of cover — are real.
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Liability insurance for Pilates and Tai Chi instructors in Portugal
Equipment risk, hands-on correction and older student bases — the real exposure behind two unregulated disciplines.
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Liability insurance for massage and spa therapists in Portugal
Not a physiotherapist, not an osteopath, not one of the regulated six — what massage-therapist liability cover actually needs to reflect.
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The Seven Lei 71/2013 Therapies: the Cédula, the Cover and the €150,000 Minimum
The seven regulated therapies, the ACSS-issued cédula profissional, and the statutory minimum Portaria 200/2014 sets.
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Psychologists and Nutritionists: Liability Cover Under a Different Regime
Their own regime via the Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses and Ordem dos Nutricionistas — explicitly not Lei 71/2013.
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Liability Insurance for Retreat Organisers in Portugal
The four separate pieces a retreat needs: instructor liability, the Alojamento Local overlap, participant accident cover, cancellation.
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Which Portuguese Professional Bodies Require Indemnity Cover
A reference table: legally compulsory versus contractually expected, for the regimes this site covers in depth.
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When there is no off-the-shelf policy: how a specialist risk is placed
Intermediary, underwriting agency and insurer capacity; what delegated authority and a coverholder actually are; what you must supply, and realistic timescales.
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Liability cover for trustees, foundation boards and family offices in Portugal
How fiduciary liability differs from ordinary D&O, why personal assets are at risk, and what Side A and run-off cover do.
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D&O exposure for non-executive board positions held abroad
Non-executive does not mean non-liable. Why the company's D&O may not protect you, what Side A cover does, and how run-off and cross-border gaps leave directors exposed.
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