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Providers warn foster‑care liability insurance crisis could shutter community foster homes
Summary
Children's League and multiple community foster‑care providers told the Joint Committee on the Judiciary that insurers are exiting the market or imposing steep price increases, threatening closure of foster homes that serve medically complex children and increasing costs for the state.
Rachel Gualtney, executive director of the Children's League of Massachusetts, and executives of community foster‑care providers testified Tuesday about a growing foster‑care liability insurance crisis that they said threatens placement capacity for children in state care.
Gualtney told the committee that several national insurers have either terminated coverage for foster‑care providers or proposed dramatic premium increases, a trend she said has led to closures of foster beds in other states and now threatens Massachusetts providers.…
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