Should Sponsors Cover Malpractice Insurance?

Send us Fan Mail Darshan and Edye tackle a hot topic in clinical research budgeting: Should malpractice insurance be considered an overhead cost that sponsors cover? Edye explains both sides. Sponsors often argue that malpractice is simply a cost of being a physician, unrelated to research. Sites, however, may try to include it—at least partially—as part of trial-related overhead. But even then, justifying full coverage through a single trial is difficult. Darshan pushes back, suggestin...