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Markel UK launches comprehensive liability contract for the UK media industry
 
Markel UK, the specialist insurer, has launched a new liability contract to meet the growing risks facing the UK media industry. The contract provides coverage on a civil liability basis for media liability, in addition to offering professional liability cover for services provided in connection with media businesses.

Find out more about the new liability contract for media risks here



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Win an iPad

To celebrate the launch of our new comprehensive media liablity product we offered you the chance to win an iPad 2. Entrants were asked to tell us one of the risks covered by our media liability insurance. The competition ran throughout November, and the winner was drawn at random from the correctly answered entries, on Thursday, 1 December.

Development manager, Dave Hall, presents competition winner, Colin Hackett of Coulter Hurst & Co Ltd an iPad 2.

Congratulations to Colin Hackett, commercial broker at Coulter Hurst & Co Ltd who was the lucky winner! Dave Hall,  development manager, presents Colin with his iPad 2.  


Our updated policy will meet the evolving risk demands facing the UK media industry.

Cover now incorporates:    

- Indemnities to distributors and printers       
- Costs and expenses for contempt of
  court and regulatory proceedings      
- Negligent transfer of computer viruses         

Example risks:

Book publishers
-  Internet publishers
-  Trade journal publishers

Magazine and newspaper publishers
-  TV and radio broadcasters
-  TV and film production companies
-  Media content providers

Risk categories:

Authors               Books                    Broadcasting Internet Publishing             

Typewriter   

 Books

 Microphone

Internet

Newspapers

-  Political,
Biographers 
   and auto -
   biographers
-  Childrens
-  Educational
-  Factual
-  Hobbies and   
   interests
-  Technical
-  Financial
-  Fictional
-  Copywriter /
   ghost writer

-  Biographies
-  Auto-

   biographies
-  Childrens
-  Educational
-  Factual
-  Hobbies and 
   interests 
-  Technical
-  Financial
-  Research
-  News
-  Current affairs

-  News
-  Documentary
-  Discussions
-  Live discussions
-  Phone-ins
-  Advice
-  Current affairs
-  Education
-  Health / 
   medicine
-  Natural world
-  Plays
-  Films 
-  Comedy
-  Musical
-  Advertising

-  Publishing 
-  Broadcasting
   and web
   hosting, (non
   technical)

-  Specialist 
   national
   newspapers
-  Trade journals
-  Local
   newspapers
-  Magazines
-  Political
   magazines
-  Biographies
-  Auto-
   biographies
-  Childrens
-  Educational
-  Factual
-  Hobbies and
    interests
-  Technical
-  Financial
-  Research
-  News
-  Current affairs

 

 

                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information visit our media liability page.