May 10, 2021
LONDON – When much of the global economy locked down last year, insurers, facing estimated losses of more than $100 billion globally, reached straight for their red pens to strike pandemic cover from all new business policies. Denis Kessler, chairman …
April 7, 2021
In the early months of the pandemic last year, brokers just couldn’t place insurance for the entertainment industry. In late February 2020, underwriters began excluding communicable disease from all of the underlying production insurance policies. No insurer wanted to touch …
August 19, 2020
Entertainment insurance provider SpottedRisk has acquired Media Guarantors, a specialized managing general underwriter focused on completion bonds for the film industry. West Hollywood, Calif.-based Media Guarantors, launched in 2018, has been a subsidiary of Cast & Crew, a payroll, human …
September 10, 2019
Janet Comenos is co-founder and chief executive officer of the Boston-based predictive analytics startup named Spotted that matches companies with celebrities for endorsements and advertising. Comenos and Spotted have parlayed their expertise in celebrity analytics and advertising into an insurance …
September 10, 2019
As co-founder and chief executive officer of the predictive analytics firm Spotted, Janet Comenos knows a lot about famous actors, artists, athletes and celebrity advertising. Her Boston startup matches companies with celebrities for endorsements and advertising. Lately Comenos has been …