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Gonna throw this out there and see what happens. As I have mentioned before, I use my two burms in presentations for my job. Last fiscal year, I did something like 62 presentations for about 6500 people, mainly students. The subject of insurance never came up. However, as I move into another fiscal year, an insurance question has popped up. I am scheduled to do a presentation next week, and the organization I'm visiting has asked if I have liability insurance in case something should happen. At this stage, I do not. I have an insurance agent checking around for me, but he hasn't had much luck. I'm also wanting to insure my snakes against loss. My question is do any of you have any kind of insurance on your snakes and if so, with what company? (I'm assuming that the breeders out there carry insurance on their collections.)

While I'm on the subject, I'm also trying to get insured for venomous snakes here in Georgia. The law says I must have a $40,000 liability policy on each snake I keep. I can't find any group to insure me for this, either. I know this isn't one of the many venomous forums (a few of them could probably be combined as well!), but do any of you out there know a company that would insure me for venomous snakes? FWIW, I did ask this over on two of the venomous forums and only got one reply, and that one reply hasn't been very helpful so far.

Thanks for indulging me.

RP

I recently posted this on the blood python forum. Here is the link to my post. This is the only company I have found so far. I'm not sure if they insure venemous because I live in Massachusetts and we're not allowed to keep them (as well as retics, rocks, anacondas, GTPs, GTB's, etc...). The laws here are pretty strict. Hopefully they have what your looking for. Take care, Scott Sullivan.
Liability Insurance post on Blood forum

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There is some discussion at this thread

Have you searched the old forum archives? I find trying to search the new forum archives by subject usually frustrating.

Several years ago, I was involved in a discussion around this issue. I know some of the larger breeders carry insurance -if I remember correctly Ralph Davis was involved in this discussion as well- and I remember being told it was very expensive. I would ask Dave Barker, VPI.com, or any of the very large, established breeders (Bob Clark, etc).
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Marcia Pimentel
Tango River Reptiles
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I have been thinking about this very seriously for the last year and a half. I have yet to get it because I am home almost ALL of the time and so feel pretty in control in terms of something happening to my stock (fire, heat influx, theft, two males escaping their cages, etc) and we ALWAYS have a house/reptile sitter when we need to go out (my wife and I). So for now I am pretty much okay. But I still feel I will need such insurance when the bulk of my offspring are ariving. Until now it has just been a clutch here and a litter there, but soon it will likely be several clutches and or litters at a time. This is when I feel I will certainly need to get insurance. So when anyone does find out info on what companies there are to compare rates with, please post them here.

>>Several years ago, I was involved in a discussion around this issue. I know some of the larger breeders carry insurance -if I remember correctly Ralph Davis was involved in this discussion as well- and I remember being told it was very expensive. I would ask Dave Barker, VPI.com, or any of the very large, established breeders (Bob Clark, etc).
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>>Marcia Pimentel
>>Tango River Reptiles
>>GiantFeeders
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Brian and the rest here is a site that offers pet insurance on snakes (exotic) I red this article before not even thinking that I have pet insurance on my Burmese , till I read it today and you were asking for one and I was finally thinking,, sorry for not getting this to you sooner heres the site

http://www.petinsurance.com

>>Brian and the rest here is a site that offers pet insurance on snakes (exotic) I red this article before not even thinking that I have pet insurance on my Burmese , till I read it today and you were asking for one and I was finally thinking,, sorry for not getting this to you sooner heres the site
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>>http://www.petinsurance.com
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It isn't "Ideas" that fail or succeed,... it is the "Systems" which are instilled to launch and sustain the idea that either fail or succeed.>[Me.]