CNA vs Harper: Medical Malpractice Insurance

Harper is a broker that quotes individual clinicians online and can issue certificates the same day; CNA's liability covers healthcare facilities and providers with a 70-person claims team.

Kearny Risk organizes these comparisons for firms whose advice, content or technology creates professional exposures.Research updated 2026-09-30

What Are the Key Differences Between CNA and Harper Medical Malpractice Insurance?

Facility and Practice Coverage

CNA lists medical professional liability across facilities and providers, including outpatient classes, and describes primary options with excess or umbrella towers. Harper says its placements can cover clinicians and the practice or facility entity itself, and serves clinicians who need proof for licensing or privileges. If you operate a practice, check that the proposal names both the clinicians and organization that need protection. [1] [3]

Claims-Made Continuity

Harper says most policies it places are claims-made, making the retroactive date and tail coverage relevant when clinicians change jobs, retire, or switch carriers. CNA describes a healthcare claims team with medical-malpractice litigation experience, but the reviewed record does not establish its policy form. Compare the form and retroactive date directly; a tail extends the time to report certain claims after a claims-made policy ends. [3] [1]

What Should You Confirm in CNA and Harper Medical Malpractice Insurance Quotes?

  • Ask Harper to identify claims-made or occurrence terms, retroactive date, entity coverage, and tail cost. [3]
  • Ask CNA which form applies and how any excess limits attach to the primary policy. [1]

Areas of coverage

CNA

  • eligibility: CNA lists medical professional liability for healthcare facilities and providers, including outpatient classes such as ambulatory surgery, dialysis, clinics and home health. Entity: CNA brand; underwriting company may vary Product: Healthcare medical professional liability for listed facilities/providers Jurisdiction: United States Research source scope: U.S. healthcare professional liability including facilities and outpatient classes Claim limitation: Company marketing summary only; issued policy forms, underwriting, jurisdictional availability, limits, exclusions and definitions control. Source/date qualification: Healthcare capabilities brochure version 20260827 / ©2026; claims apply to the listed healthcare classes and do not generalize aging-services state or surplus-lines terms to every class.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: CNA describes primary professional liability options and separate excess/umbrella towers for healthcare accounts. Entity: CNA brand; underwriting company may vary Product: Healthcare medical professional liability Jurisdiction: United States Research source scope: U.S. healthcare professional liability including facilities and outpatient classes Claim limitation: Company marketing summary only; issued policy forms, underwriting, jurisdictional availability, limits, exclusions and definitions control. Source/date qualification: Healthcare capabilities brochure version 20260827 / ©2026; claims apply to the listed healthcare classes and do not generalize aging-services state or surplus-lines terms to every class.company-reportedSource ↗
  • claims: CNA describes a healthcare claims team of 70 professionals averaging 20 years of experience, including medical-malpractice litigation experience. Entity: CNA brand; underwriting company may vary Product: Healthcare professional-liability claims service Jurisdiction: United States Research source scope: U.S. healthcare professional liability including facilities and outpatient classes Claim limitation: Company-reported staffing/experience; not an outcome or service-level guarantee. Source/date qualification: Healthcare capabilities brochure version 20260827 / ©2026; claims apply to the listed healthcare classes and do not generalize aging-services state or surplus-lines terms to every class.company-reportedSource ↗
  • services: CNA describes consultative risk-control assessments and training for healthcare customers. Entity: CNA brand; underwriting company may vary Product: Healthcare professional liability risk-control services Jurisdiction: United States Research source scope: U.S. healthcare professional liability including facilities and outpatient classes Claim limitation: Service description does not alter policy coverage. Source/date qualification: Healthcare capabilities brochure version 20260827 / ©2026; claims apply to the listed healthcare classes and do not generalize aging-services state or surplus-lines terms to every class.company-reportedSource ↗

Harper

  • role: Harper places medical malpractice coverage with carriers it describes as familiar with the clinician's or care business's specialty, rather than underwriting the policy itself. Product-page description of Harper's placement role for this line.company-reportedSource ↗
  • eligibility: Harper markets this line to clinicians and care businesses that need malpractice coverage for licensure or facility privileges, and it names tail coverage as a particular concern when a clinician leaves a practice or switches carriers. Product-page marketing copy; not an eligibility guarantee for a particular applicant or specialty.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: Harper describes the medical malpractice coverage it places as responding to allegations about diagnosis, treatment, medication or supervision decisions, and as including defense of licensing-board complaints in addition to lawsuits. Product-page coverage summary; the issued policy and its exclusions control the actual terms.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: Harper says most of the medical malpractice policies it places are claims-made, which makes the retroactive date and tail (extended reporting) coverage important when a clinician changes jobs, retires or switches carriers, and it also places entity coverage for the practice or facility itself, not only individual clinicians. FAQ and coverage-features text on the product page; actual trigger and tail terms depend on the specific policy.company-reportedSource ↗
  • limits: The reviewed medical malpractice page does not publish limit or retention amounts; it says cost and, implicitly, available terms depend on specialty, volume and claims history. Medical malpractice product page as read on 2026-09-23.not-disclosedSource ↗
  • services: Harper says it can issue certificates and quotes the same day for this line, and describes reaching both large carriers and specialty markets that write malpractice for a given specialty. Product-page service claims; not independently timed or confirmed for a particular request.company-reportedSource ↗
  • application: You apply for Harper medical malpractice coverage through an online quote form, and Harper says a specialist walks applicants through the occurrence-versus-claims-made and tail-coverage tradeoffs before they commit. Quote form and FAQ observed on the product page.company-reportedSource ↗

CNA offers primary and excess structures for healthcare accounts; Harper places mostly claims-made policies and calls attention to retroactive dates and tail coverage.

Sources reviewed

  1. 01
    Tailored Coverages for Aging Services, Allied Healthcare Facilities and More | CNA

    CNA · pp. 4–5, 7–8: healthcare classes, PL/GL options, claims and risk-control capabilities · accessed 2026-09-28

  2. 02
    Physicians Medical Professional Liability — Specimen Policy

    Curi underwriting companies identified on specimen cover · Base I–III printed pp.1–3/PDF pp.2–4; V–VI pp.3–6; VIII p.7; XII pp.11–13 · accessed 2026-09-16

  3. 03
    Medical Malpractice Insurance

    Harper · Product hero; Know your coverage: What is Medical Malpractice insurance?; Professional liability for care, License defense, Tail and prior acts, Entity coverage; Why Harper; FAQ: Occurrence or claims-made?, Does it cover board complaints?, What does it cost? · accessed 2026-09-23

  4. 04
    Physician Application

    MedPro Group / issuing companies identified on application · I–II p.1; III pp.2–4; IV pp.4–5; V pp.5–6; VI p.6 · accessed 2026-09-16

  5. 05
    Medical Malpractice Insurance

    National Association of Insurance Commissioners · Background: Issue; Overview; two basic types · accessed 2026-09-16

  6. 06
    Medical Liability Insurance shopping guide

    Texas Department of Insurance · What is medical liability insurance?; Claims-made versus occurrence; changing carriers; renewal tips · accessed 2026-09-16

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