What protection do I have?

Your Protection as a Participant in a Clinical Study

Both companies and responsible doctors are obliged to ensure that every patient or healthy volunteer participant is guaranteed adequate financial protection through insurance or other satisfactory means, should injuries occur in connection with the trial. 

Both public and private healthcare providers are therefore obliged to take out patient injury insurance. From this insurance, compensation can be provided for physical and psychological injuries (with certain exceptions), caused by examination, care or treatment, equipment or medical device malfunction, incorrect diagnosis, infections, accidents, and improperly handled medicines. CTC has such insurance through IF. 

However, injuries due to the properties of the medicine or deficiencies in the description of how it should be used are not compensated in accordance with the rules of the Patient Injury Act. Instead, such injuries should be claimed from the insurance company where the pharmaceutical company has product liability insurance; this is stated in your consent form. In many cases, the pharmaceutical company has taken out this insurance through Svenska Läkemedelsförsäkringen (lff.se).