The Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC) is the largest insurer of eye physicians and surgeons in the United States and the nation's premier source for ophthalmic risk management information. Individualized risk management advice is available through OMIC's Risk Management Hotline for OMIC member-insured. In addition, OMIC makes most of its risk management resources available online to all ophthalmologists in the hope of reducing risk for the entire ophthalmic community.

At OMIC's web site (www.omic.com) ophthalmologists will find one reliable resource for informed consent documents in English and Spanish, ophthalmic claims and risk management articles and data, case studies of recent claims, office documents and templates, suggested guidelines and protocols, and risk management recommendations.

Please note that all links from this page go to the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC) Web site. While OMIC is a trusted partner of the Academy, the AAO does not maintain and is not responsible for the content on the OMIC website.