Film Production Insurance

Coverage Highlights

Cast Insurance
Designed to indemnify the Production against additional production costs (including abandonment) necessarily incurred in the event of accident, sickness or death of persons accepted for cast cover.

Extra Expense Insurance
To provide cover against additional production costs necessarily incurred in the event of physical damage to property by any external cause resulting in the interruption or abandonment of the production caused directly and solely from such damage.

Negative and Videotape Insurance (Including Faulty Stock Camera and Processing)
Providing cover against additional production costs necessarily incurred due to loss or damage to raw stock, exposed film, videotape, or digital media storage devices, including sound track.

Cover is also extended to include the additional costs reasonably and necessarily incurred in meeting a transmission/air date, arising as a direct result of an insured loss.

Props, Sets and Wardrobe Insurance
Covers the Production against the cost of repair or replacement resulting from physical loss and/or damage to owned or hired props, sets and wardrobe during the course of the Production.

Miscellaneous Technical Equipment Insurance
This section covers the cost of repair or replacement resulting from physical loss of or damage to owned or dry-hire camera, sound, lighting and miscellaneous equipment used during the course of the Production.
Cover will apply whilst the equipment is being used for filming or during post-production (for editing equipment). The Production should avoid leaving valuable items of equipment in unattended vehicles. In exceptional circumstances where this is unavoidable please contact FPF for guidance.

Property of Others Insurance
Indemnifies the insured production’s legal liability for damage to or loss of third-party property used for the Production and in the Production’s care, custody or control that is not insured under any other section of the insurance.

Production Office Contents Insurance
Cover can be provided for loss or damage to temporary production office contents only i.e. items purchased, hired or borrowed by the Production for use only by the Production.

Money Insurance
This section is designed to provide cover for loss, destruction or theft of cash and other negotiable documents carried or held by the Production in respect of any Production declared.

Employers’ Liability Insurance
Employers’ Liability (EL) insurance enables the Production to meet its legal liability to pay compensation for your UK employees’ injuries or illness that have been caused by the Production’s negligence. It will also cover the legal costs necessary in defending a claim. This section meets your legal requirement for Employers’ Liability insurance.

Public & Products Liability Insurance
This section covers you for the potential legal liability to compensate third parties that experience personal injury or property damage, in the event the Production is found to be negligent.


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