Runoff / Tail Coverage After Last-Patient Last-Visit on a LATAM Device FIH

General information, not insurance, legal, or regulatory advice. Confirm current ethics / national authority 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 No unpublished client.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 clinical trial insurance runoff LPLV, tail coverage after last patient last visit FIH, post-study window trial liability LATAM, 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 We do not quote a binder.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.

Ethics asks for a policy that does not die on last-patient last-visit. Device follow-up windows outlast the implant day. A binder that expires at LPLV is a resubmission waiting for a clerk. bioaccess® sequences the packet. We do not sell the tail. We do not invent a runoff month-count on this page.

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 policy period through follow-up / runoff after LPLV 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/ethics / national authority 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.

What “through follow-up” actually means

The live insurance hub already said: policy period through last-patient last-visit plus the protocol follow-up window. This page is that clock. Implant, explant, imaging, and SAE after the procedure still sit on the protocol. Claims-made forms need a tail or an extended reporting period. Occurrence forms still need territory and named insureds to survive. Ask the carrier which object you are buying. We will not invent a pan-regional runoff statute.

LPLV is not the ethics gate and not SIV

EC/IRB certificate-to-start is CMS 95993. Binder-before-SIV is CMS 95997. This page is the other end: coverage that outlasts the last visit. Do not clone those slugs. Do not file a certificate that ends on the implant date.

What ethics and ethics / national authority actually ask for

Use clinical-trials-panama. Panama’s Ministry of Health (MINSA), through the Dirección Nacional de Farmacia y Drogas, is the national file. Ethics review runs through institutional bioethics committees registered with the Comité Nacional de Bioética de la Investigación (CNBI). Published ethics typically 3–5 weeks; with bioaccess® coordination, protocol submission to first-patient enrollment averages 6–8 weeks on that hub. Per-patient costs there: $12,000–$22,000 in U.S. dollars. A hallway conversation at this hospital is not MINSA clearance. Use clinical-trials-chile. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration in a 30–90 day band is a different file — do not put trial authorization and commercial registro on one Gantt labeled “Chile.” An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP on this page.

Insurance documentation is usually in the ethics / ethics / national authority 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

A local admitted policy that ends at LPLV still fails if the protocol has a 12-month follow-up. A master that promises worldwide runoff in a brochure still has to print a certificate the committee will file. Introduction is not a quote.

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

  1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. Follow-up in Panama, Chile, Brazil, or Mexico still has to match territory. New Colombian FIH execution is not the recommendation on the public line.
  2. Protocol, IB, ICF, and the ethics / ethics / national authority packet with insurance documents in the same stack — not a parallel founder email.
  3. Importer of record and device accountability. A binder does not import the investigational product.
  4. Site activation: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. A site MSA that “includes insurance” is still not ISO 14155 monitoring.
  5. 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

Public line, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. 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 policy period through follow-up / runoff after LPLV. 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 runoff / tail coverage after LPLV on a LATAM device FIH, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Siblings (do not clone): EC/IRB certificate to start, bind before SIV.

Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®