Insurance Protection for Companies Producing Content & Unforgettable Experiences

At Mathews Comfort, we support many companies within the media and entertainment space. With a deep understanding of the exposures and challenges, we are dedicated to building customised insurance solutions, protecting your ingenious projects and invaluable work. 

Subsectors we work with:

• Film & Television 
• Broadcasters 
• Publishers 
• Advertising Agencies
• Marketing Agencies 
• Public Relations Agencies 
• SEO & PPC
• Photographers
• Event Organisers 

Why choose us? 

• Extensive Experience Insuring Media & Entertainment Businesses – With years of experience, our dedicated team understands the specific challenges and risks that you face.
• Tailored Insurance Programmes – We tailor programmes that meet the specific needs of your company, from initial incorporation all the way through to large multinational corporate.
• Personal Service—As your dedicated partner, we are not a transactional broker but an advisor. 
• Dedicated Support – We are on hand to respond quickly to queries, arrange times to meet and provide you with dedicated contacts that you can use in emergencies. 
• Risk Management Guidance – Insurance (risk transfer) is the last pillar of the risk management tree, we can actively assist in guidance concerning risk identification, risk analysis, risk control and mitigation. As well as providing options for how you want to transfer the risk or how much of that risk you want to retain.

What insurance does a Media & Entertainment business need? 

• Professional Indemnity and Media Professional Indemnity Insurance – Cover for your professional negligence (caused by an error or omission with your design, service or advice and an unintentional breach of contract), as well as libel, slander, defamation, plagiarism and breach of copyright. 
• Event Insurance – Cover for your events, including event cancellation. 
• Management Liability Insurance – Cover for allegations of wrongful acts made against directors (protecting their own personal assets) and the company, plus options to include employment related disputes and employee crime. 
• Cyber Insurance - Immediate incident response, system damage and reinstatement, business interruption, cybercrime (i.e. theft of funds), third party liability, notification expenses and brand protection.
• Intellectual Property Insurance – Cover for your defence costs and the costs to pursue third parties, as well as cover for the financial loss to your company stemming from the loss of IP rights.
• Drone Insurance – Covers liability arising from those drones in flight, as well as physical protections for the drones themselves. 
• Liability Insurance - Including employers’ liability insurance, public liability and products liability (including any material, drug product, laboratory consumable or equipment).
• Asset Protection Insurance – Cover for your equipment, props, stock and buildings 
• Business Interruption Insurance - Cover for lost turnover, profit or R&D expenditure, R&D income, committed costs and project delay costs for pre-revenue companies due to your premises being damaged and becoming uninhabitable. 

We can also arrange the following additional covers for you:

• Business Travel Insurance
• Marine Insurance
• Engineering Inspection & Insurance
• Transaction Liability (Warranties & Indemnities) Insurance
• Motor Fleet Insurance
• Employee Benefits Insurance 

Our approach:

• Review/Consultation – Please reach out for initial advice, we’d be delighted to arrange a meeting. At this stage we can develop an understanding of your business, assess your potential exposures, discuss your ongoing concerns.
• Tailor Programme & Negotiate with the Market – Once we have developed a knowledge of your business and understand your concerns, we enter the market and negotiate with well suited specialist insurers.
• Implementation – Once we have tailored your programme, we discuss our recommendation in depth with you, giving you the opportunity to build a deep understanding of what you are being covered for and why.
• Ongoing Support – We are here and on-hand to help, no question or query is too big or small.