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This insurance program has been specifically designed for the organizers of short term special events that meet the following criteria:

  • Maximum total attendance is 3,000 or less.
  • Maximum number of consecutive event days (not including set-up or tear down) is 10.
  • Event is held at a single location.
  • Event location must be held in the U.S.
 
Eligible Operations
 
- After Prom Parties (school sponsored event only)
- Graduation ceremonies
- Auctions
- Grand openings
- Award Presentations
- Job fairs
- Ball/Dances
- Lectures/seminars/workshops
- Banquets
- Meetings
- Bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah
- Memorial services
- Bazaars
- Pageants
- Benefits
- Parties
- Billiard events/tournaments
- Picnics (no in or on water activities)
- Bingo games (for fundraising/charity only)
- Poet or poetry readings
- Book Signings
- Proms
- Card games/events (for charity/fundraising only)
- Memorial Service
- Car/motorcycle/RV/boat shows - static display only
- Quinceaneras
- Car washes (for charity/fundraising only)
- Recitals (dance, music)
- Casino Events (for charity/fundraising only)
- Religious events
- Celebrations (holiday, new year)
- Reunions
- Chamber of commerce business events/mixers
- Sales (bake, charity, consignment, estate, garage)
- Charity events
- School band or drill team competitions
- Chess events
- School carnivals (no rides/inflatables)
- Christmas caroling (single location)
- Showers (baby, bridal, wedding)
- Christmas lighting ceremony
- Shows (animals-area setting only, antique, art, baby,
- Concerts - other than rap, hip-hop, heavy metal/screamo or
 
business, collector, consumer, craft, fashion, flower, garden,

techno/electronic (call for approval)

home, stage, wedding)
- Conventions
- Social gatherings or receptions
- Debuts or debutante balls
- Speaking engagements
- Dinners, luncheons or showers
- Talent searches/shows - children only
- Direct selling consultant parties
- Telethons
- Easter egg hunts (no egg drops from aircrafts)
- Theatrical performances or musicals
- Farmers' markets
- Walking tours (garden, holiday, parade of homes, historical
- Festivals

sites) - single location
-​Film screening or showings
-​Wedding activities' (rehearsal, ceremony or reception)
​-Flea markets or swap meets


- Food Cooking Contests
 
 

Ineligible for this program:

Certain event types are not eligible for coverage by this program. We reserve the right to decline any request for coverage.
The ineligible event types include, but are not limited to the following (and are excluded from coverage):
 
- Activist rallies/marches/protests
- Fraternity or sorority events (except alumni association
- Aircraft shows/events

off-site events that have been approved by us)
- Animal obedience training
- Geocaching events
- Any events involving organized athletic events/competitions
-
Gun and/or knife shows
- Any events and/or concerts - involving rap, hip-hop,
-
Haunted attractions/events

heavy metal/screamo or techno/electronic
-
Health fairs/expositions
​-Any events held on an airport premises
-​Hunting, fishing and hiking events
-
Any events honoring national and/or local celebrities or
- Mazes (corn, hay or fence)

professional athletes
- Parades (or any event involving a parade)
-
Any events involving in or on water activities
- Political events (except private fundraising auctions,
- Battle reenactments
 
benefits, dances, dinners)
- Cannabis related events
- Pumpkin chuckin events
- Christmas tree sales/lots
- Rodeos
- Cinematography or photography events for commercial use
- Seances
- Circuses
- Shooting events/activities (skeet/trap/clay/guns)
-
Color party, foam party or raves
- Tailgating events (unless reported to and approved by us)
- E-gaming
- Tractor pulls
-​Food eating contests
​-Union meetings


​-Walks/running events




 

Coverages Available & Program Highlights

 
Commercial General Liability
- Personal and Advertising Injury    
- Medical Expense    
- Damage To Premises Rented to You    
- Products-Completed Operations    
 

Notable Exclusions

 
- Abuse molestation or exploitation
- Room and board liability/overnight camping
- Any event held at multiple locations (except for weddings)
-
Sexually transmitted disease
-
Any event held outside the U.S.
- Silica or silica-related dust
- Any event with over 3,000 in attendance
- Specified recreational vehicles and activities - Aircraft/hot
Asbestos

air balloon; Airport; Amusement devices: the ownership,
 -   Cap on losses from certified acts of terrorism

operation, maintenance or use of any device or equipment
-
Commercial general liability standard exclusions

a person rides for enjoyment, including, but not limited to:
  (CG0001 4/13 edition)

mechanical or non-mechanical ride, slide or water slide
-
Communicable disease

(including any ski or tow when used in conjunction with a
-   Cyber incident, data compromise, and violation of statutes  
water slide); inflatable recreational device; or vertical device
  related to personal data

or equipment used for climbing, whether permanenly affixed
-
E-commerce consulting

or temporarily erected. This exclusion does not apply to 
-
Employment related practices
 
video games or computer games or structures that are not
- Fireworks
designed to bounce on, slide on, ride on or tunnel through;
-
Fungi or bacteria
Animals; Bungee; Dunk Tank; Haunted attraction; Parade;
-
Lead
Performer; Rodeo; Saddle Animal; Snowmobile
- Nuclear energy
- Total pollution with a building heating, cooling & dehumidifying
- Operations of concessionaires, exhibitors and/or vendors

equipment exception and hostile fire exception
exhibitors and vendors at your event -
Unmanned aircraft
​-Petting zoos
 
Preliminary Underwriting Information Required
 
The following information is required 10 business days prior to the desired effective date:
 
- Completed and signed enrollment form  
- Full premium payment by check or credit/debit card