Pilates Association Australia Member Insurance
PAA is partnered with BMS to offer the PAA Member Insurance program. The program offers a range of comprehensive insurance solutions to meet your professional needs, and of course give you peace of mind.
What cover is available?
Professional Indemnity and Public & Products Liability Insurance Insurance
You may face situations where your clients look to hold you responsible for injuries they believe are due to your professional services. This is where Professional Indemnity insurance could step in.
Professional Indemnity Insurance protects you against allegations or third party claims due to injury or damages that have resulted from a negligent act, error, omission, malpractice or breach of duty that has arisen out of your professional capacity as a Pilates Instructor.
Public Liability Insurance provides cover for bodily injury or property damage to a third party that occurs while conducting your professional activities. This is primarily a legal defence costs cover but also covers settlement costs in the event that you are found to be liable and/or negligent in causing the injury or property damage.
Products Liability Insurance covers you for actual or alleged bodily injury or property damage to a third party arising through use of a product sold, supplied, or manufactured by you.
The policy also extends to cover other modalities including:
- Yoga
- Barre
- Power Plate
- Core Align
- Franklin Method
- Buff Bones®
Is your modality not listed? Speak to BMS about policy extensions at pilatesaa@bmsgroup.com or call 1800 940 764.
Refer to the Policy Wording for full policy inclusions.
FAQs for the PAA Member Insurance Program
Additional cover
If you currently hold a Professional Indemnity and Public & Products Liability policy with BMS, additional cover is available to you. This includes business insurance, entity insurance, cyber liability insurance, and personal accident insurance.
How do you apply?
As long as you hold a current PAA membership, you can get cover in minutes. Simply log in to the PAA membership portal and navigate to the Member Insurance Program section. You will need to register for an account in the BMS Portal to access cover or, if you already have cover, login to purchase additional policies.
BMS will email all of your important insurance documents once your cover is confirmed.
For more information, speak to BMS at pilatesaa@bmsgroup.com or call 1800 940 764.
Update to renew and purchase PAA Member Insurance
From mid-March 2025, you will need to renew your PAA Member Insurance via the NEW BMS Portal.
The BMS Portal gives you control of your insurance to safely manage your policies, update your details, lodge a claim and purchase cover all in one place.
What’s more, the BMS Portal features a growing library of risk resources and insurance policies for purchase including business insurance and entity insurance.
Be covered in 2025
Already insured with PAA Member Insurance?
BMS will email instructions to set up your BMS Portal at the time of your renewal. Simply follow the steps to set up your BMS Portal and renew cover.
If you hold a Business Insurance policy with BMS you may have already set up your BMS Portal.
Not currently insured with PAA Member Insurance
Simply maintain an active PAA membership and register for an account in the BMS Portal to get a quote for cover.
https://paa.bmsgroup.com/s/login/SelfRegister?assocCode=PAA
Who is BMS
BMS is the official and exclusive insurance broker for PAA.
BMS Risk Solutions Pty Ltd (BMS) is the exclusive partner for the PAA Member Insurance Program.
BMS is part of the wider BMS group, offering a diverse range of specialty insurance and reinsurance – including cover for healthcare and regulated professionals through associations across Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. With the support and resources of our wider group and established local knowledge and care, BMS is the insurance partner you want on your team.
To find out more visit the BMS website for more information.
Disclaimer
* You must be a current Pilates Association Australia (PAA) member to be eligible to register for the PAA Member Insurance program. You must be part of the PAA Member Insurance program in order to access additional cover. If your membership ceases you will not be offered renewal when your policy expires. In offering this insurance to our members PAA is a distributor of BMS Risk Solutions Pty Ltd (BMS) AFSL 461594, ABN 45161187980. The insurance policies are arranged by BMS under binder agreement with the insurer. When acting under binder BMS acts as agent for the insurer and not as your agent. This is general advice only and BMS has not considered whether it was suitable for your personal circumstances, current objectives, needs or financial situation. Please read the Policy Wording and the BMS Terms of Engagement which contains the Financial Services Guide before making a decision about purchasing this policy. As a distributor, PAA may receive a percentage of the commission paid to BMS by the insurer and/or a fee per policy in offering this insurance to members.