For live & experiential production

Coverage for the independent specialists behind the show, in their own name, so a claim never becomes your lawsuit.

GL, E&O, and WC for production and tour managers, creative directors, designers, photographers, and consultants, issued in their name, per engagement. If they're hurt or named in a claim, their policy responds, not a lawsuit against the show, the venue, or you.

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The classification line

Most live-events crew are employees for the event. We cover the specialists who aren't.

Stagehands, riggers, and AV techs work under the venue's control, usually payroll or IATSE. The independent layer, production leadership and creative specialists, runs a real business, and coverage in their own name keeps that independence defensible and the claim off your books.

Audit reality

WC audits assign uninsured specialists to your policy at the highest rate code.

One missed per-event COI turns their fee into payroll exposure, and we've seen it inflate premium 30%+.

Venue ask

Every venue wants the COI 72 hours before load-in. And it has to name the venue.

Per-event coverage auto-issues with the venue as additional insured before the trucks roll.

Tour routing

Class codes change at every state line. So does the comp rate.

Coverage routes per show date (Monday in PA, Tuesday in NY) into the right code automatically.

Day-of swaps

Half the roster changes the morning of load-in.

Per-event activation closes in minutes, covering the swap before the call sheet reprints.

No coverage bottleneck

Your whole roster stays bookable — no one sidelined for a missing COI.

Per-engagement coverage rides with each specialist, so any name on your list is show-ready. No coverage gap means no date goes unstaffed.

Built for the producer's workflow

Four capabilities that match how an engagement actually books.

What the producer, the venue, and the specialist all need before the run starts: coverage in the contractor's name, issued per engagement.

POST /v1/assignments
1  "contractor": "cn_Vn7KRd9Qa",
2  "job": "jb_prodMgr7",
3  "work_state": "TX"
● 200 policy: po_Sm9RKd$1.40 / $100

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Bind GL, E&O, and WC the moment a specialist is booked.

When you book a specialist, your booking system calls our Assignments API with the contractor, role, dates, and jurisdiction. We return a per-engagement rate, bind in the contractor's name, and the COI issues before load-in. No payroll cycle, no annual estimate.

Per-engagement premiumActive

Policy IDpo_Sm9R4n2

Engagements3

Earned per run$4,200

Rate per $100$1.40

Premium due$176.40

02

Priced per engagement, so it never lands on your annual policy or your audit.

Each specialist's premium meters per engagement, in their own name, with per-state routing applied automatically. No annual estimate, no year-end true-up, and these contractors stay off your WC payroll.

General liability

Additional insured

Insured

Devon Sloane

Each occurrence$1,000,000

Damage to premises$100,000

General aggregate$2,000,000

03

Coverage in the contractor's name. Venue and producer named on the COI.

GL, E&O, and WC issue in the specialist's own name; the venue and producer are added as additional insured per engagement. So an on-site injury is their claim against their own policy, not a suit against the show.

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Production Manager

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Your venue ops verify coverage with a QR scan at the dock.

Every covered specialist carries a my.1099policy.com proof-of-insurance page with a QR code. Venue ops scans it on arrival: coverage confirmed in the contractor's name, no broker in the loop, no certificate chase.

If people get their policies through 1099Policy, we don't review it. We don't even have to look at it. The dates are right, the additional insured is correct, and they've crafted the integration to just do all of that work for us.
Production Services Director
Global brand-experience agency

Classification & coverage

What producers ask before putting a specialist on 1099.

Which live-events roles genuinely qualify as independent, how per-engagement GL and E&O work, and why coverage in the contractor's name keeps an injury off your books.

Usually the independent production-leadership and creative specialist layer: production managers, tour managers, creative directors, designers, photographers, consultants, and vendors who control how they deliver the work.

Often, yes. Venues, agencies, and brand clients may require proof of workers' comp before a specialist can step onto the show site.

Coverage can bind around the engagement window and certificate requirements: dates, venue, client, role, and additional-insured language.

Yes. The independent specialist remains the named insured, and the venue, producer, agency, or brand client can be added where the contract requires it.

Coverage should follow where the work is performed. 1099Policy stores the record by engagement so audit questions do not land in a spreadsheet scramble.

The independent specialist or their business entity is the named insured. The producer, agency, venue, or brand can be attached as required.

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Cover the show's independent specialists, in their own name.

GL, E&O, and WC for production leadership, designers, and creative vendors, per engagement. If they're hurt or named in a claim, their policy responds, not a suit against you. COIs the venue can pull, additional-insured in seconds.

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Built for the independent production-leadership and creative layer of touring, festivals, and experiential.