Insurance For Artists - Tin Travel You Lot Help?

I'm developing a novel website close Insurance for Artists.  It's i of those technical aspects of beingness an creative someone which is apt to select handgrip of us out from fourth dimension to fourth dimension - as well as it's e'er skillful to know what our options are!

Q. What's the value of your fine art infinite as well as its contents?

I've been doing as well as volition live on doing a lot of inquiry for the website, withal I've e'er flora that crowd-sourcing is an first-class way of identifying options which are less obvious. So that's where I take away your help!

By way of payback, I'll live on producing a site which hopefully volition live on helpful to a lot of practising artists.

Artists Insurance - Resources for Artists is where I induce got got to so far.
[UPDATE MAY 2015: Insurance for Art as well as Artists is the NEW site which contains data of involvement to ALL artists.]

It includes the links which I had already identified as well as whatsoever which are recommended inwards the comments.

Why create nosotros take away insurance?

The website volition aim to explicate all the dissimilar circumstances when nosotros take away to reckon insurance.

For example, the insurance mightiness cover:

• The Artist's Studio 
• at domicile (ie dissever workspace at domicile as well as non residential - as well as thus non covered past times a domestic policy) 
• in a leased unit of measurement (with/without insurance inwards the rent)
• Art materials as well as equipment
• accidental damage to fine art materials and/or equipment
• despatch of fine art materials to some other country
• Artwork 
• on consignment inwards a gallery (ie gallery possessor / exhibition organiser does non ain artwork as well as accepts no responsibility for insurance)
• despatch of artwork to/from customer or exhibition (domestic or international)
• Art Gallery (the space)
• dedicated gallery
• open studios / clients visiting studio
• Artist run Workshops / Art Classes
• insurance encompass for host premises
• third political party liability for students inwards fine art workshops you're running
• students' insurance (they select their own!)
• professional indemnity
• Health Insurance for Artists (for those who don't induce got access to the NHS)
• payment of bills for healthcare
• indemnity if you lot are the primary breadwinner as well as you lot are unable to work

Can anybody recollect of whatsoever other circumstances when an creative someone needs insurance?

Can you lot recommend an insurance policy for artists?

One of the primary problems people induce got is inwards identifying the companies who specialise inwards providing the type of polices which artists take away and/or who tin offering prices appropriate to artists.

If you'd similar to portion whatsoever insurance organisation that you lot induce got used AND tin recommend I volition as well as so include it inwards the site - amongst a link dorsum to your weblog as well as a brusk annotation close your stance of your experience

Insurance for Artists: This is what I take away to know

If you lot induce got data you'd similar to share, this is what I take away to know

• Please special the URL of a spider web page amongst a contestation close the offering inwards relation to insurance specifically for artists - as well as what it comprises.  Here's an example of what I mean The Artists Information Company - Artists' insurance policy (AIP)
• Tell me what province you lot alive inwards as well as whether the insurance is domestic or global
• Please tell me what your sense has been (eg What are the things which seat difficulties inwards terms of  finding insurance at a reasonable cost?)
• tell me what the URL is of your artist's website or weblog (note I'm exclusively taking recommendations from artists)

I'm going to kind entries on the website into

• those who insure on a global soil (ie skillful for international despatch) and 
• those who focus on a specific  country.  

That way you lot tin all state who you lot piece of occupation no affair where you lot live! :)

My exclusively caveat is that I am looking for recommendations from artists close either brokers or insurance policies who bargain specifically amongst artists - or are "friendly" to artists

In other words this is emphatically NOT an invite for sundry full general insurance firms to Earth on this weblog shouting their wares - delight annotation your comments volition NOT live on published.

Do you lot induce got whatsoever interesting stories close fine art insurance claims?

I'm every bit good looking hither for tips as well as examples of what to do/ what non to create inwards relation to insuring fine art or an fine art business.  Cautionary tales are every bit good useful if it helps others.

So - over to you lot - what tin you lot tell us about 

• what you lot recollect close when you're insuring your fine art / fine art infinite / fine art business?
• your fine art insurance?

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