The standard production form excludes stunts by name. The exclusion comes off that way.Founded by an Emmy-nominated television editor.
Stunt and pyrotechnic coverage is arranged by scheduling and underwriting the production that carries it, because the base entertainment form carries a printed stunt, pyrotechnic and animal exposure exclusion.
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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.
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Your current policy paperwork, a renewal notice, or nothing at all. A licensed agent reads it and replies the same business day.
What stunt and pyrotechnic actually covers.
Scheduled stunt work
Vehicle action, falls, fights and rigged gags, declared and underwritten in advance.
Without it — The printed exclusion applies and the whole sequence is uninsured.
Pyrotechnics
Effects work involving fire or explosives, subject to licensed operators and permits.
Without it — A fire effect that spreads is excluded twice over.
Where stunt and pyrotechnic shows up.
- Film & Entertainment
The standard production form excludes stunts and pyrotechnics by name. It has to be underwritten rather than assumed.
- Staging & Rigging Companies
Performer flying and any rig carrying a person is a different underwriting conversation from carrying a lamp.
- Farm & Ranch YouTubers
Anything filmed for the danger of it, a bull, a rope trick or a jump, is a stunt to an underwriter and is written separately.
What clients with stunt and pyrotechnic ask us.
Why can I not just buy a policy that includes stunts?
Because the underwriter needs to know what the stunt is before pricing it, and "stunts" covers everything from a scripted trip to a car roll. The exclusion exists so the carrier is asked. In practice that means telling us before the shoot, with the stunt description, who is coordinating it and what permits are in place, and it means an unscheduled stunt on the day is uninsured however small it seemed.
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.