INSURANCE SOLUTIONS

INSURANCE SOLUTIONS

Coverage Written for Your Exposures

Coverage Written for Your Exposures


Insurance for IAAPA members covering guests, staff, animals, collections, rides, and products — built around the risks attractions actually carry, on the midway and long after installation.

Insurance for IAAPA members covering guests, staff, animals, collections, rides, and products — built around the risks attractions actually carry, on the midway and long after installation.

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Delivering Measurable Impact

6,000+

IAAPA Member Organizations

100+

Countries Represented

140+

Higginbotham Offices Nationwide

1918

Serving the Industry Since

Delivering Measurable Impact

6,000+

IAAPA Member Organizations

100+

Countries Represented

140+

Higginbotham Offices Nationwide

1918

Serving the Industry Since

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A PARTNER WHO KNOWS YOUR RISK

A PARTNER WHO KNOWS YOUR RISK

Specialist Coverage,
Fewer Surprises

Generic policies leave gaps with names: abuse and molestation, assault and battery, pollution, participant injury, exotic animal liability. IAAPA Insurance Solutions writes attractions-focused coverage designed to close them.

Core Coverage

Accident Medical Coverage

First-party medical coverage for participant and guest injuries that resolves smaller claims outside the liability program.

Accident Medical Coverage

First-party medical coverage for participant and guest injuries that resolves smaller claims outside the liability program.

Active Assailant & Terrorism (TRIA)

Closes the gap TRIA and standard CGL leave open, responding on a named-peril basis to victim costs, business interruption, and crisis management.

Active Assailant & Terrorism (TRIA)

Closes the gap TRIA and standard CGL leave open, responding on a named-peril basis to victim costs, business interruption, and crisis management.

Business Interruption

Compliant screening for high-volume seasonal hiring, including the more rigorous screening carriers require for staff working with children or animals.

Business Interruption

Compliant screening for high-volume seasonal hiring, including the more rigorous screening carriers require for staff working with children or animals.

Captive Insurance & Alternative Risk Transfer

Protects revenue when a ride goes down, weather closes the park, or an incident triggers an operational pause, built around this industry's seasonal revenue concentration.

Captive Insurance & Alternative Risk Transfer

Protects revenue when a ride goes down, weather closes the park, or an incident triggers an operational pause, built around this industry's seasonal revenue concentration.

Commercial General Liability

For qualifying, well-run operators: access to captive and alternative risk transfer structures that let a member retain underwriting profit. Public-facing copy: acknowledge availability for qualifying operators only, no mechanics or figures.

Commercial General Liability

For qualifying, well-run operators: access to captive and alternative risk transfer structures that let a member retain underwriting profit. Public-facing copy: acknowledge availability for qualifying operators only, no mechanics or figures.

Commercial Property

365-day claims advocacy plus pre-loss readiness, including written incident-response plans and pre-arranged crisis communications support.

Commercial Property

365-day claims advocacy plus pre-loss readiness, including written incident-response plans and pre-arranged crisis communications support.

Contractual Risk Transfer Advisory

The foundation liability policy for every attraction, written on forms shaped to ride operation, queue-line incidents, special events, and high guest density rather than generic commercial GL.

Contractual Risk Transfer Advisory

The foundation liability policy for every attraction, written on forms shaped to ride operation, queue-line incidents, special events, and high guest density rather than generic commercial GL.

Crime / Employee Dishonesty

Coverage purpose-built for attractions properties, from coasters and animatronics to historic museum buildings, with underwriters who understand true replacement cost.

Crime / Employee Dishonesty

Coverage purpose-built for attractions properties, from coasters and animatronics to historic museum buildings, with underwriters who understand true replacement cost.

Cyber Liability

Structuring and reviewing certificates of insurance, additional insured endorsements, and indemnification wording so risk sits with the right party.

Cyber Liability

Structuring and reviewing certificates of insurance, additional insured endorsements, and indemnification wording so risk sits with the right party.

Directors & Officers Liability

A structured review comparing carried limits against the contractual insurance requirements imposed by customers, landlords, and municipalities.

Directors & Officers Liability

A structured review comparing carried limits against the contractual insurance requirements imposed by customers, landlords, and municipalities.

Employment Practices Liability (EPLI)

For the high-volume cash operations at gates, concessions, and retail that create employee theft exposure.

Employment Practices Liability (EPLI)

For the high-volume cash operations at gates, concessions, and retail that create employee theft exposure.

Fiduciary Liability

Built for a workforce that is young, seasonal, and high-turnover by design, addressing harassment, discrimination, and wage-and-hour claims.

Fiduciary Liability

Built for a workforce that is young, seasonal, and high-turnover by design, addressing harassment, discrimination, and wage-and-hour claims.

International / Foreign Liability

Protects revenue and sunk costs when severe weather or public-health events force a closure or cancel a signature event.

International / Foreign Liability

Protects revenue and sunk costs when severe weather or public-health events force a closure or cancel a signature event.

Participant Legal Liability

The defining and hardest-to-place coverage for zoos and aquariums; fewer than a dozen U.S. carriers write it.

Participant Legal Liability

The defining and hardest-to-place coverage for zoos and aquariums; fewer than a dozen U.S. carriers write it.

Pollution Liability

For institutions with retirement plans and endowment investment responsibilities that carry board fiduciary duty.

Pollution Liability

For institutions with retirement plans and endowment investment responsibilities that carry board fiduciary duty.

Products & Completed Operations Liability

All-risk, wall-to-wall coverage for permanent collections, traveling exhibitions, and objects on loan, written to appraised value.

Products & Completed Operations Liability

All-risk, wall-to-wall coverage for permanent collections, traveling exhibitions, and objects on loan, written to appraised value.

Professional Liability / E&O

Covers safety-critical equipment and products in transit, written against documented inspection and replacement cycles.

Professional Liability / E&O

Covers safety-critical equipment and products in transit, written against documented inspection and replacement cycles.

Sexual Abuse & Molestation (SAM)

Coverage for venues serving alcohol, often better written as a separate policy than a CGL endorsement.

Sexual Abuse & Molestation (SAM)

Coverage for venues serving alcohol, often better written as a separate policy than a CGL endorsement.

Umbrella / Excess Liability

Coverage for injuries sustained during the activity itself, the exposure standard premises CGL does not reach.

Umbrella / Excess Liability

Coverage for injuries sustained during the activity itself, the exposure standard premises CGL does not reach.

Volunteer Accident Coverage

Outsourced payroll, HR administration, and compliance support for operators without an in-house HR function.

Volunteer Accident Coverage

Outsourced payroll, HR administration, and compliance support for operators without an in-house HR function.

Waiver & Release Consulting

Covers chemical storage, handling, and accidental release, plus recreational water illness contamination, on exposures standard forms exclude.

Waiver & Release Consulting

Covers chemical storage, handling, and accidental release, plus recreational water illness contamination, on exposures standard forms exclude.

Workers' Compensation

Coverage for the long-tail exposure of attractions manufacturing, where a ride sold today can generate a claim decades later, with deliberate management of policy continuity across years.

Workers' Compensation

Coverage for the long-tail exposure of attractions manufacturing, where a ride sold today can generate a claim decades later, with deliberate management of policy continuity across years.

Specialty Coverage

Animal Bailee / Care, Custody & Control

Inland marine protection for animals on loan to or from other institutions, including international loans requiring specialized marine cargo coverage.

Animal Bailee / Care, Custody & Control

Inland marine protection for animals on loan to or from other institutions, including international loans requiring specialized marine cargo coverage.

Animal Mortality Insurance

FScheduled coverage for the financial loss of animals in a collection, written through Lloyd's and a small number of domestic specialty markets.

Animal Mortality Insurance

FScheduled coverage for the financial loss of animals in a collection, written through Lloyd's and a small number of domestic specialty markets.

Aquatic & Water Park Liability

Coverage addressing drowning and near-drowning claims, lifeguard staffing and certification standards, and CDC Model Aquatic Health Code compliance.

Aquatic & Water Park Liability

Coverage addressing drowning and near-drowning claims, lifeguard staffing and certification standards, and CDC Model Aquatic Health Code compliance.

Aviation Liability

For helicopter, balloon, or small-aircraft tour operations, a separate specialty market governed by FAA regulations.

Aviation Liability

For helicopter, balloon, or small-aircraft tour operations, a separate specialty market governed by FAA regulations.

Equipment Breakdown

Direct access to a dedicated specialty service team, the same people who underwrite, service, and advocate for the account.

Equipment Breakdown

Direct access to a dedicated specialty service team, the same people who underwrite, service, and advocate for the account.

Event Cancellation & Weather Contingency

Protection for volunteer boards and leadership covering the decisions that actually generate claims: acquisition/disposition, employment, and financial management.

Event Cancellation & Weather Contingency

Protection for volunteer boards and leadership covering the decisions that actually generate claims: acquisition/disposition, employment, and financial management.

Equine Liability

Protection for ticketing, POS, guest data, and operational technology behind ride control, addressing both guest-data breach and OT compromise.

Equine Liability

Protection for ticketing, POS, guest data, and operational technology behind ride control, addressing both guest-data breach and OT compromise.

Exotic Animal Liability

Full-spectrum benefits including group health, dental, vision, life, and pharmacy, coordinated alongside P&C placement.

Exotic Animal Liability

Full-spectrum benefits including group health, dental, vision, life, and pharmacy, coordinated alongside P&C placement.

Fine Art & Collections Insurance

Specialty coverage for horseback riding and equestrian tour operations, excluded from most CGL forms.

Fine Art & Collections Insurance

Specialty coverage for horseback riding and equestrian tour operations, excluded from most CGL forms.

Inland Marine / Equipment Floater

Covers ride drive systems, pumps, filtration, life-support infrastructure and similar mechanical assets essential to operations.

Inland Marine / Equipment Floater

Covers ride drive systems, pumps, filtration, life-support infrastructure and similar mechanical assets essential to operations.

Liquor Liability

Member-only pricing and program incentives across covered lines and program-related services.

Liquor Liability

Member-only pricing and program incentives across covered lines and program-related services.

Ride & Attraction Liability

For members working across borders, covering liability from foreign operations, installation, and product sales.

Ride & Attraction Liability

For members working across borders, covering liability from foreign operations, installation, and product sales.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is IAAPA Insurance Solutions?

Who is it for?

Can you write classes other markets have declined?

Do I have to move all my insurance to the program?

Will my rates be lower?

Is this just one type of coverage?

What types of insurance are available?

Why go through the program instead of buying coverage on my own?

How does the program handle a serious incident?

Do you help with risk management and safety, or just placement?

Are there benefits beyond insurance coverage?

How does IAAPA benefit from this program?

I’m a supplier, not an operator. Is this for me?

How do I get started?

Still have questions? Whether it’s about coverage, market access, or how the program works for your specific operation, our team is ready to help.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is IAAPA Insurance Solutions?

Who is it for?

Can you write classes other markets have declined?

Do I have to move all my insurance to the program?

Will my rates be lower?

Is this just one type of coverage?

What types of insurance are available?

Why go through the program instead of buying coverage on my own?

How does the program handle a serious incident?

Do you help with risk management and safety, or just placement?

Are there benefits beyond insurance coverage?

How does IAAPA benefit from this program?

I’m a supplier, not an operator. Is this for me?

How do I get started?

Still have questions? Whether it’s about coverage, market access, or how the program works for your specific operation, our team is ready to help.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is IAAPA Insurance Solutions?

Who is it for?

Can you write classes other markets have declined?

Do I have to move all my insurance to the program?

Will my rates be lower?

Is this just one type of coverage?

What types of insurance are available?

Why go through the program instead of buying coverage on my own?

How does the program handle a serious incident?

Do you help with risk management and safety, or just placement?

Are there benefits beyond insurance coverage?

How does IAAPA benefit from this program?

I’m a supplier, not an operator. Is this for me?

How do I get started?

Still have questions? Whether it’s about coverage, market access, or how the program works for your specific operation, our team is ready to help.

Colorful ferris wheel illuminated at night reflected in water.

Ready for Insurance That Understands Your Operation?

IAAPA Insurance Solutions was created on a simple principle: the attractions industry deserves an insurance partner who knows why a coaster, a wave pool, and a life-support system are not the same risk.

Colorful ferris wheel illuminated at night reflected in water.

Ready for Insurance That Understands Your Operation?

IAAPA Insurance Solutions was created on a simple principle: the attractions industry deserves an insurance partner who knows why a coaster, a wave pool, and a life-support system are not the same risk.

Colorful ferris wheel illuminated at night reflected in water.

Ready for Insurance That Understands Your Operation?

IAAPA Insurance Solutions was created on a simple principle: the attractions industry deserves an insurance partner who knows why a coaster, a wave pool, and a life-support system are not the same risk.