u/mayalovro

The prevalence of named, additional insured COI requests from venues has exploded compared to when I first started. I used to get maybe one or two a year and every other venue was fine with regular proof of insurance but now I'm getting them for nearly every event and (at least here in NYC) many venues want themselves plus a billion parent companies explicitly named.

My current insurance is fine. They have a nice online portal and everything is easy and quick ...except COI requests. They don't generate them on weekends and it's a whole process to add venues to additional insured and then generate COIs. With how common they've become, it's put me in a weird situation a few times already and added a ton of time to my workload.

I'm thinking about switching and I'd love to hear some thoughts on what companies we're loving or avoiding in 2026.

Do you love who you're using? Does anyone use someone with a fast, online way to generate COI documents? What is up with the explosion of additional insured requests over the last few years anyway?

Thanks friends.

On today’s installment of “Things that didn’t age well”, I found an old promotional poster for the Pittsburgh Zoo that features their long-gone painted dog exhibit

For those out of the loop, this exhibit was removed in 2012 after a child fell into it and was killed by the dogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Maddox_Derkosh

Here’s the Wikipedia entry about it.

Open to ideas on what I should do with this poster. I’m moving and I could take it with me but it would just end up in storage again. Throwing it away feels wrong. Anyone want it for historical preservation?

edit: TIL they didn't euthanize the dogs after! I was under the impression they had, but they were actually relocated. So, some good news in exchange for reminding you this happened.

What insurance companies do you love or hate?

Found a relic of a different time while cleaning out my basement