Originally Posted by
PilotAUS
<snip> I'm not an insurance expert, but the "professional indemnity" insurance is designed to protect professionals in the limits of coverage for possible errors and lapses if judgement, isn't it?
Yes.
Originally Posted by
PilotAUS
Unless it's deliberate negligence or harmful.behaviour from a professional (instructor), but it looks like it was not deliberate. Wasn't the company covered by such insurance?
No, because pilots doing pilot stuff are not professionals in the relevant sense.
However, there
could be other kinds of insurance cover in place for death/injury/damage caused to third parties and their property. I say "could" be because I'm not aware of any mandate for that cover in, for example, a flying school context. As far as I'm aware - happy to stand corrected - in Australia the only mandated insurance in the aviation context is carrier's liability insurance, and that's cover for a 'commercial' carriers liability to passengers, not student pilots.