Entertainment Insurance Recovery

McGuireWoods represents motion picture studios, television networks, event venues, production companies, record labels, music publishers, professional sports teams, Broadway productions, talent agencies, producers, recording artists and actors.

The practice areas’ leader, Kirk Pasich, is ranked among California’s and the nation’s top policyholder lawyers (Chambers USA, Benchmark, Best Lawyers and others) and is rated one of the country’s leading entertainment lawyers because of his insurance recovery work in the entertainment industry (Hollywood Reporter, Lawdragon and Variety). Other team members also are recognized for their experience by publications such as Best Lawyers.

Focusing on disputes with insurers and insurance brokers, we work exclusively on behalf of policyholders and, when necessary, pursue recoveries through arbitrations, lawsuits and appeals. The team has decades of experience achieving recoveries under all lines of insurance for entertainment industry clients, including motion picture and television portfolio and individual production policies (cast, extra expense, imminent peril and civil authority), tour cancellation policies, business interruption coverages, cyber policies, multimedia liability policies and political risk policies. Our knowledge also covers more common policies, such as general liability, directors and officers liability, property, employment practices, crime, cyber and homeowners.  

We have secured recoveries for claims and losses arising from tour, production, Broadway shows, and event cancellations, infringement, defamation, and invasions of privacy claims, delays and cancellations of motion picture and television productions, employment-related claims, and losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.