Dear Folks! Trying to find insurance for a coworking space in South Philly...and any guidance would be much appreciated! (Alex, I saw the Hartford mention...and I have a call in to them...waiting for an answer...) THANKS! Marina
On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:37:45 PM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: > We had requirements from our landlord as well. And we got a great deal > from The Hartford. Explain that it's shared workspace, that tends to move > things along smoothly. > > -Alex > > -- > ----- > -- > ----- > Alex Hillman > im always developing something > digital: [email protected] <javascript:> > visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com > local: www.indyhall.org > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Derek Young <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> We were required by our landlord to carry a couple million dollar policy. >> It >> wasn't a problem to get through a local broker. We explained that we were >> an >> office service and most folks would be doing office-type jobs. We never >> mentioned our fire retardant pajama tester, but it only took a few days to >> finalize. Plus, it was pretty darn cheap. >> >> A broker should be able to figure it out. We ultimately ended up with The >> Hartford I believe. >> >> Our lesson very early on in the process was to forget about explaining the >> rational behind coworking. If you tell them it's something new, folks seem >> to get worried. If you describe coworking using a long understood business >> vocabulary, things moved along smoothly. >> >> Derek Young >> Suite133 >> >> >> On 9/10/08 1:46 PM, "Kelly Brown" <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > I just got off the phone with our insurer and they are having a heck >> > of a time trying to get an underwriter for us. It looks like they're >> > going to get it done -- but I can't believe it'd even be an issue. >> > >> > We're really just renting office space and then allowing people to >> > come in and work. >> > (Some of) The underwriters are saying they need to know what each and >> > every member's company does as there's risk associated with it -- >> > (like one of us might be testing fire retardant pajamas in the >> > facility). >> > >> > Anywhoo -- anyone else run into trouble? >> > Anyone have any guidance on how they got their places insured to meet >> > the landlord requirements? >> > Any leads on coworking friendly insurers? >> > >> > Kelly Brown >> > Office Space Coworking >> > www.officespacecoworking.com >> > > >> >> >> >> >> > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
