History

MIGA has supported the medical profession for over 100 years and traces its origins to a small meeting of the medical profession on 21 December 1899. It was proposed at that meeting that an association be formed to be called the Medical Defence Association of South Australia.

The proposal was carried and the 20 doctors present at that first meeting were elected as the inaugural members of the association.

MIGA is a very different organisation today, with a loyal and growing membership base nationally and a business structure to deal effectively with the needs of doctors through an excellent blend of insurance, financial, legal and medical expertise.

MIGA also plays an active and vital role in the wider medical indemnity insurance industry. With other key stakeholders we have worked in recent years on medical indemnity reforms and other initiatives which have had and will continue to have a positive impact on medical indemnity insurance costs in the future.