Excluded on the same endorsement as stunts, and scheduled the same way.Founded by an Emmy-nominated television editor.
Animal death, illness and injury coverage, with extra expense for shooting around an animal that cannot perform, declared in advance because the base production form excludes animal exposure by name.
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One licensed human replies the same business day — not five agents, not an auto-responder. If the policy you have is already the right one, we will tell you.
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We were editing television long before we were insuring it.
Kevin Kelsey
Founder | Principal Agent
IATSE Local 700 member
Boring’s founder, Kevin Kelsey, edited television for fifteen years before he sold a policy. He was Emmy-nominated for The Muppets Mayhem, cut Shark Tank, Big Brother, Dancing with the Stars and Wheel of Fortune, and handled compliance and risk for some of Hollywood’s largest production companies. So the person building your coverage has been on a crew list, dealt with the permit offices, and met network and streamer requirements from the production side, rather than working from a rate manual. He also builds post-production software. Manifest Post is the board episodic post teams use to track every episode, and B/side is a video editor for people who cut together. He holds a number of patents on that software. So he knows the post side of a production as a vendor to it. We insure productions from Los Angeles to Atlanta, New York and Toronto, with worldwide and foreign production coverage.
The work is placed with the markets that actually write film, television and live entertainment — Zurich through ISC Entertainment (formerly Abacus), Philadelphia Insurance Companies, Take1 and Alive Risk — rather than with a general small-business carrier asked to try.
Send us what you have. We’ll tell you if it’s right.
Your current policy paperwork, a renewal notice, or nothing at all. A licensed agent reads it and replies the same business day.
What animal mortality actually covers.
Death, illness or injury
The value of an animal working on the production.
Without it — A trained working animal is a substantial uninsured asset.
Animal extra expense
The cost of delays and reshoots caused by an animal that cannot perform.
Without it — The day is lost and the crew is paid regardless.
Where animal mortality shows up.
- Film & Entertainment
Animals are excluded on the same endorsement as stunts, and a horse that cannot work costs you the day as well as the animal.
- Zoos & Aquariums
Collection animals are valuable property and are not replaceable in any ordinary sense.
- Farms & Ranches
Lightning, flood and a barn fire are the classic multi-head losses.
What clients with animal mortality ask us.
Does it cover a wrangler’s animals or ours?
Either, depending on how it is scheduled, but it has to be scheduled. If you are hiring animals through a supplier, check what their own coverage does and does not include, because their policy protects their interest and the production’s extra expense is a separate loss that their policy has no reason to pay.
Commercial insurance is 96% of what we do — it is not a department here, it is the whole business. Not ready to talk? The guides answer the questions this page raises in more depth. Already insured with us and need a certificate or a policy change? Ask the service team rather than starting a quote — it is faster and it goes to the people whose job it is. We also write home and auto, which is usually cheaper alongside the business policy than apart from it.
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