[TheThinkTank] Insurance for community shops

[Jonathan Morrison]

Good one! I updated the wiki to reflect it:

http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Insurance

On 5/8/07, Neighborhood Bike Works <info at neighborhoodbikeworks.org> wrote:
> NBW has liability insurance from American Specialty through the League
> of American Bicyclists.  A group must be an LAB member to get the
> discounted rate.  Rates are based on your number of "members" (students
> and shop users, in our case) and cover regular activities only; extra
> coverage may be obtained for special outside-the-shop events and races
> on a fee-for-event basis.
>
> LAB & liability together cost ~ $1300 annually, but NBW has *a lot* of
> member-users.  When we only had 500 or so folks a year, the rate was
> much, much lower.
>
> j
>
> ride with heart wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
> >
> > Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability coverage we
> > had through our partners.  Now we're looking for basic liability and
> > wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for
> > community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc.  Or at least an
> > understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
> >
> > Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
> >
> > Wajid Jenkins
> > Freewheel Community Workshop
> >
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Sincerely,

Jonathan Morrison
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Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
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