WFT Podcast: A to Z of Insuring your Film

By 15 February 2024Listen, News & Events
In this WFT Ireland’s Podcast, Board Member and Producer Fiona Kinsella chats with Madison Eastwood, John O’Sullivan and Lorcan Murphy on the A to Z of Insuring your Film. These experts from WFT sponsors Media Insurance and discuss the nuances of media insurance, offering crucial insights on coverage essentials and risk mitigation and help on understanding the complex paperwork involved.
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This webinar was made possible by Screen Ireland Stakeholder Funding.

 

About John O’Sullivan

John has been placing TV & Film Production risks for 25 years mainly in Ireland & UK. MIB are one of the leading specialists to the TV, Film & Commercial industry, placing all manner of risks involved in the creation of content., MIB place covers for Broadcasters; Channel 4, Sky, Five and RTE plus Production Companies such as NBCU, Mammoth Screen, Moonage, Element Films, ALL3Media, Subotica, Playground TV and Left Bank Picture to name a few. Placing covers for producers to Netflix, Paramount, Amazon, Apple across Europe and the World within the Media Insurance Network with offices across the planet!

 

About Lorcan Murphy

Lorcán Murphy hails from Dublin but lives in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.  He has been practising Insurance since 2009. He joined Quinn Insurance in 2009 as part of the Professional Indemnity team underwriting policies for solicitors. In 2012, he joined Liberty Insurance and moved into the commercial combined department , specialising in the hospitality sector along with retail, construction and manufacturing industries.

On joining MIB Insurance, Lorcán made one more move into the world of Television & Film production in January 2017. Since then, Lorcán has been servicing clients on productions for RTE, TG4, BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and Paramount.  From the office in Dublin, clients from throughout Europe are also serviced such as Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, France & Germany where policies are provided for such as production, Errors & Omissions, Travel & PA, Professional indemnity, Directors & Officers insurance and Kidnap & Ransom insurance.

Lorcán is very proud to work in such an exciting and ever changing industry where he relishes having to adapt to an ever changing landscape that affects the sector itself along with global issues such as covid, Ukraine & Palestine. Providing solutions to clients and working with insurance underwriters present an everyday challenge.