General information, not insurance, legal, or regulatory advice. Confirm current Uruguayan ethics / national file ethics, import, and coverage rules with qualified advisers and a licensed broker. We do not invent premiums, limits, or carrier rates on this page. We do not claim a named carrier as a signed bioaccess® partner here. No patient data. No unpublished client. Always bioaccess®.
If you searched Uruguay clinical trial coverage, buy trial insurance Uruguay device FIH, Uruguay trial liability, you were looking for someone who would write international clinical-trial coverage for an investigational device. bioaccess® is a first-in-human medical-device CRO. We are not an insurance carrier. We do not underwrite policies. We do not sell premiums. We do not quote a binder. OUS and Latin American device trials still need trial-specific liability — local admitted paper, a master with local certificates, or both. We run the trial under ISO 14155. We can introduce a specialty carrier. That introduction is not a signed partnership on this page, and it is not a quote.
Uruguay is on the public bioaccess® countries list (llms.txt; live hub at clinical-trials-uruguay). That is enough to intercept the search. It is not enough to invent a Uruguayan statutory insurance tariff, a ministry acronym we have not footed, or a week-count we have not published. Confirm current ethics and coverage rules with qualified advisers. bioaccess® is not the carrier.
This page is not a clone of Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start. That hub is the country-snapshot checklist (territory, named insureds, language, runoff). This page is the Uruguay insurance exhibit (public country page only) intercept. Distinct slug. Distinct title. Same operator: the CRO runs the trial; a carrier writes the paper.
The CRO is not the carrier
Founders type “buy clinical trial insurance” and land on CROs, brokers, and hospital MSAs in the same result set. Those are three jobs:
- Carrier. Underwrites participant injury, medical expenses for trial-related events, defense, and site/investigator indemnification — if the form matches the protocol. A hallway conversation is not a binder.
- Broker. Places the form, translations, additional-insured endorsements, and territory wording. Licensed where the paper has to sit.
- CRO. Protocol, IB, ICF, ethics/Uruguayan ethics / national file packet, importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America, ISO 14155 monitoring, SAE clock, TMF, and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE. Eligibility of foreign data is not FDA clearance.
Mixing those jobs is how a startup buys a U.S. product-liability rider, emails a PDF to an ethics committee, and gets a resubmission. Product liability is not clinical-trial liability. A site’s institutional policy is not the sponsor’s trial form.
Public geography is not a rate card
Cite clinical-trials-uruguay and the countries hub. We will not invent a new Uruguayan clock on this page. We will not pretend Uruguay is Argentina or Brazil. ANMAT and ANVISA intercepts are separate slugs (batch 2). If Uruguay is on the protocol, the liability exhibit still needs territory, period, named insureds, and a language the committee can file — the same operator logic as the hub, not a clone of CMS 95591.
Do not skip Colombia because someone Googled Uruguay
A Uruguay search is not a withdrawal from Colombia. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia. We pick the country the device needs. A Uruguayan certificate does not replace an INVIMA exhibit. A leftover-site hospital page is not this intercept.
What ethics and Uruguayan ethics / national file actually ask for
Use the live Uruguay country page. We will not invent unpublished ministry clocks, PAHO standing, or premiums here. Ask the reviewing ethics body and a licensed broker what certificate they will stamp.
Insurance documentation is usually in the ethics / Uruguayan ethics / national file packet, not a post-approval formality. Typical asks (confirm with the reviewing body — we will not invent a pan-regional limit):
- Territory that names every country on the protocol.
- Site and principal investigator as additional insureds when the committee requires it.
- Policy period through last-patient last-visit plus the protocol follow-up window.
- Spanish (or Portuguese) certificate or notarized summary when the committee asks for it.
- Claims-notice language that can sit next to the SAE clock, not against it.
We will not invent a per-participant dollar figure on this page. Individual ethics committees set thresholds. Ask the carrier and the CRO together, before the packet goes in.
Local policy vs controlled master
If the carrier’s master excludes Uruguay, say so before you freeze the country list. If local admitted paper is required, a manuscript certificate may fail. Get it in writing. Introduction is not a quote. No signed carrier partnership on this page.
A “controlled master” that never issues a local certificate is a slide, not a submission. A local-only policy that cannot travel to a second Latin American country is a one-country trap. The operator chooses geography for the device; the paper has to follow the protocol, not the other way around.
What bioaccess® still owns after you have a quote
- Regulatory-fit, not tourism. Uruguay sits on the same public LATAM map as Panama, Chile, and Colombia. Insurance territory has to match the protocol, not a 115-country brochure.
- Protocol, IB, ICF, and the ethics / Uruguayan ethics / national file packet with insurance documents in the same stack — not a parallel founder email.
- Importer of record and device accountability. A binder does not import the investigational product.
- Site activation: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. A site MSA that “includes insurance” is still not ISO 14155 monitoring.
- Introducing a specialty carrier when the founder does not already have admitted paper. Introduction is not a signed partnership on this page. We do not invent rates.
The firm was founded in 2010. Public device case studies (ReGelTec, Axoft, Newrotex, enVVeno, Avantec Vascular / Sangria™ as already published) show FIH execution with import and insurance as workstreams — not as bioaccess® underwriting. We will not invent a premium from those pages.
Colombia is still on the map
A site-name search sometimes arrives with a stale story that bioaccess® “left Colombia.” That is false. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia. Always bioaccess® — local entity and office, Miami headquarters, INVIMA clocks in-country. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on clinical-trials-panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.
A Bogotá or Floridablanca ethics packet still wants financial responsibility for participant injury. That does not flip the public line. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia. We pick the country the device needs.
Frequently asked questions
Does bioaccess® sell clinical trial insurance?
No. We are the FIH CRO. We can introduce a carrier. We do not underwrite. We do not bind. We do not invent a rate card on this page.
Is this the same article as the LATAM insurance hub?
No. The hub is Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start. This page is Uruguay insurance exhibit (public country page only). Do not treat them as clones.
Can a U.S. product-liability policy cover a LATAM device FIH?
Only if the territory clause and the trial-liability form actually name the countries and the investigational activity. Many U.S. GL/PL policies exclude OUS research. Get it in writing from the carrier. A verbal “we’re global” is not an ethics exhibit.
Did bioaccess® underwrite the Avantec / Sangria™ $10M policy mentioned on public pages?
No. Public llms.txt copy says bioaccess® ran FIH execution that included placing a $10M clinical-trial insurance policy as an operational workstream. That is CRO coordination, not underwriting. It is not a SKU. It is not a rate we invent here.
Next step
If the search that brought you here was Uruguay clinical trial coverage, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Uruguay operator: clinical-trials-uruguay. Sibling hub: Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start.
Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®