The article raises the problem of liability insurance for medical workers and medical organizations, the absence of a law on compulsory liability insurance for these entities, provides statistics on civil lawsuits against medical organizations, analyzes regulatory legal acts and judicial practice materials regulating the liability of medical workers. The analysis of the relationship between a medical worker and an employer, insurance legal relations at the conclusion of a liability insurance contract is carried out and a conclusion is made about the need to adopt a law on compulsory liability insurance of a medical organization for harm caused by its medical workers.