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Craig Gillette
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p.1 #1 · Insurance!


I see posts now and then about needing insurance or how much coverage. We know that many venues require $1,000,000 and sometimes more depending on the nature of the shoot. Get at least that much!

I noted in a thread not too long back that my mother had a trip and fall accident. While insurances will cover it, the bills/statements have started coming in. Now she is an older person and she did suffer some head injuries that perhaps a younger person might have avoided through luck or reflexes. She'll be fine, although still getting some therapy for her arm. Hospital bills alone (under two days Critical Care Unit, 5 days Surgical/Trauma room) are $63,000. That's before the individual doctors, specialists and other services get tacked on although this probably includes various x-rays, CT scans, etc.. I'm expecting she'll have bills approaching or passing $100,000. For a one person trip and fall. (Paramedics report was that people reported seeing her stumble crossing a street.)

So if/when the question comes up about insurance? Get it! Get a lot! Get more!



Edited on Nov 22, 2007 at 01:59 PM


Nov 22, 2007 at 02:01 AM
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p.1 #2 · Insurance!


It's becoming difficult to do much of anything without proof of insurance now-a-days. And rightly so. Aside from the injury incident illustrated above, I needed a dumpster for a remodeling project for a building I just bought. The only way the city would issue a permit for the dumpster was if my liability carrier provided a certificate listing the city as an interested party.

Liability insurance premiums are a bargain for photographers. Just be glad you are not in the business of designing and building structures. Those premiums run in the tens of thousands of dollars.




Nov 22, 2007 at 01:59 PM

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