State Press Associations T oday's media companies need protection that goes beyond traditional libel insurance. Walterry Insurance Brokers has more than 25 years of experience insuring the media. Chubb Executive Risk is a leader in the professional liability arena and specializes in media insurance.
Coverage extends to Internet-based publishing.
More and more publishers are launching Web sites to complement their traditional print operations. With this additional vehicle for communications, no news organization's media insurance is complete without this coverage. Defense costs are in addition to the limit of liability. Many other media insurance policies include legal defense costs within the limit of liability. Under this program, legal costs incurred in defense of a claim will not erode the policy's limit of liability.