Chapter 7

Insurance Requirements

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Securing insurance should be the first order of business at the start of any new production, and coverage should be obtained from an insurance broker who specializes in insurance for the entertainment industry and has extensive knowledge of the business. In the whole scheme of things, there aren’t many brokers who do this, and of those who do, most are headquartered in Los Angeles, New York and London. CMM Entertainment (a subsidiary of C.M. Meiers Company, Inc.) is one such company, as is Aon/Albert G. Ruben Insurance Services, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., DeWitt Stern Group, Marsh USA and Truman Van Dyke Company. If you’re working on a studio show or for a major independent production company, ...

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