Entertainment and Production Insurance

Productions – Entertainment Services – Events – Floaters – Errors and Omissions – Stunts

With the financial incentives of producing movies in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas the insurance industry has developed extra-ordinary programs for every production company. Not only can we insure the planning, creating, developing, and shooting of the media, but we also have pre and post-production insurance available.

Types of Eligible Productions

Productions

• DICE/Annual Productions: Can provide all coverage necessary for productions such as Television Shows and Motion Pictures.
• Film Schools: The Film School program provides production insurance for student projects that are sanctioned by the school.
• Foreign Productions: Provides the full spectrum of insurance coverages at competitive premiums for foreign productions of any budget, up to 12 months in duration. Single Production and multiple production (annual policies) are available.
• Movie Boat: A comprehensive marine property & liability insurance program that provides coverage for filming boats, barges, platforms, marinas, docks, wharves and piers.
• Production Portfolio: Provides the full spectrum of insurance coverages at competitive premiums for productions with budgets up to $15,000,000 and duration up to 18 months.
• Short Term Productions: Provides the full spectrum of insurance coverages at competitive premiums for productions with budgets less than $1,000,000 and duration up to 60 days.
• Annual Production Insurance (DICE): DICE stands for Documentaries, Industrial, Commercial, and Educational Films.
• International Production Insurance: Are you going to be filming outside of the United States or Canada?
• Recording Studios Insurance, Pre-Production Studios Insurance, Post Production Insurance: Are you a company or an individual that works on post production for the TV or Motion Picture industry?
• General Liability Insurance: Commercial General Liability for production companies protects you against third party bodily injury & property damage claims that are brought against you during a film shoot.
• Rented Equipment Insurance: Our agency can provide rented equipment coverage for various type of equipment that you rent either on a short term or long term basis.
• Third Party Property Damage Insurance: This coverage can sometimes be abbreviated as TPPD.
• Props Insurance, Sets Insurance, and Wardrobe Insurance: What kind of property will your production be using during the course of the shoot?
• Negative Film Insurance, Videotape Insurance, Faulty Stock Insurance, and Digital Image Insurance: This coverage is available in any of our production insurance programs.
• Hired and Non Owned Auto Liability Insurance: Does your company use your personally owned vehicle for your production company?
• Hired Car Physical Damage Coverage: If you are renting a vehicle, borrowing a vehicle, or using your personally owned vehicle for your production or event what happens if you wreck the vehicle?
• Cast Extra Expense Insurance: Cast Insurance or Cast extra expense coverage is an option for most all production programs.
• Stunt Insurance Including Pyrotechnic Insurance and Driving Scene Insurance: Stunt insurance can be applied for both Annual Productions and Short Term Productions.
• Workers Compensation/Employers Liability Insurance: You are required by law to carry workers compensation insurance for your production company if you have employees.
• Excess Liability Insurance/Umbrella Liability Coverage: Excess & Umbrella liability policies are very important to any business.
• Errors and Omissions Insurance for Production Companies: What happens when your production company accidentally captures a major household brand in a filming scene?
• Employment Practices Liability Insurance: This type of liability insurance is utilized and activated during the employment process as well as the hiring/firing process.
• Guild Travel Accident Insurance: SAG AFTRA and other union guilds require that your provide Travel Accident insurance if you are utilizing their personnel.

Entertainment Services

• Photographers, Videographers, DJs: The Photographers program covers photographers, videographers and DJs that provide their services to public and private functions.
• Recording, Editing, Pre/Post Production Studios: The Studio program covers recording studios, editing studios, pre-production studios and post production studios.
• Rental Houses: The Rental House program provides insurance for companies that supply the entertainment, sports and leisure industries with the equipment and/or support services.
• Shell Corps: The Shell Corp program is for incorported individuals in the entertainment industry such as actors, directors, producers, writers, cameraman, singers, musicians, composers, radio/TV broadcasters, athletes, coaches and trainers.

Events

• Annual Events: Over 200 event types can be declared to the annual policy. No maximum attendance. No limitation on number of days.
• Annual Vendors & Exhibitors: Provides coverage on an annual basis for a vendor, exhibitor, or concessionaire at a Trade Show, Festival, Fair, and similar activities.
• Event Cancellation: Event Cancellation for over 150 types of events, up to 90 days in duration.
• Foreign Events: Provides the full spectrum of insurance coverages at competitive premiums for foreign productions of any budget, up to 12 months in duration. Single Production and multiple production (annual policies) are available.
• Promoters: The Promoters program insures a promoter of events such as music, festivals, shows, clubs, parties and more.
• Special Event Coverage: Coverage for a Single Event. Over 200 types of events. No attendance maximum. Maximum event duration is 90 days.
• Theatrical Groups: The Theatrical program covers touring and non-touring theatrical companies.
• Touring Entertainers: The Touring Entertainers program covers touring musical groups, touring entertainers and performers, comedians, house bands, and baby bands.
• Vendors & Exhibitors: Provides coverage for a vendor, exhibitor or concessionaire at a single Trade Show, Festival, Fair and similar festivities.
• Venues: The Venue program provides coverage for the venue for the events taking place at the venue.
• Hip Hop Concerts and Rap Concerts: From the biggest arena known to the small city venue our insurance programs can meet budgets both big and small.

Floaters

• Contractors Equipment Floater: Comprehensive coverage for the Scheduled & Unscheduled equipment of contractors.
• Entertainment Equipment Floater: All risk, worldwide coverage for scheduled entertainment related equipment including Cameras, Production, Editing, Musical, Theatrical and miscellaneous items.
• Film Print Floater: The Film Print Floater provides all risk coverage for film prints, and certain expenses incurred to reprint, recopy or repair lost or damaged property from original material.
• Personal Articles Floater: All risk, worldwide coverage for valuables and collections including jewelry, fine arts and other miscellaneous items.

Errors and Omissions

• Multimedia Production E&O: Provides Producers & Distributors E&O Coverage. Limits up to $5,000,000, coverage term up to 3 years.

Stunts and Scenes

• Eligible declared stunts, animals, and precision driving scenes can now be purchased as a buyback to the existing stunt exclusion. Multiple scenes can be quoted online simultaneously with the production.