Built or hired at real cost, and not equipment.Founded by an Emmy-nominated television editor.
Props, sets and wardrobe covers physical loss of the things made or bought for the shoot, including rented furs, jewelry, art and antiques, which sit on their own sub-limit.
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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 props, sets and wardrobe actually covers.
Sets and props
Loss or damage to constructed sets, set dressing and props.
Without it — A fire on stage destroys a build you have already paid for twice over.
Wardrobe
Costumes owned or hired for the production.
Without it — Hired wardrobe is charged back to you at replacement value.
Rented furs, jewelry, art and antiques
High-value hired items, scheduled separately because their values are unlike the rest.
Without it — A single hired piece can exceed the entire props sub-limit on its own.
Where props, sets and wardrobe shows up.
- Film & Entertainment
Sets, costumes and rented jewelry are built or hired at real cost and are not equipment.
- Television Production
Standing sets are rebuilt between blocks and live in a stage you rent rather than own.
- Music Video Production
Wardrobe and set dressing are often borrowed or hired and are in your care while they are on set.
What clients with props, sets and wardrobe ask us.
Is this not just inland marine?
It is a close cousin and it is written as its own coverage form on a production package, with its own limit and deductible. The practical difference is that the form is built around how a production actually works: items constructed for one shoot, hired for a week, and worth far more as a set than individually.
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.
Handed a lease, a vendor packet or a client contract with insurance requirements? Paste it into the COI Requirements Decoder to see what each one means for your business, or read what the requirements mean.