Most museums and historic properties have serious gaps in their insurance coverage, and don’t even know it! Standard policies often do not cover the features that make museums and historic property owners special -- raised panel wainscoting, hand-hewn true dimensional lumber, artifacts of local significance, collections borrowed from other organizations and your collections loaned to others. Non-profit organizations, as a whole, have their own unique exposures, such as injuries to volunteers, decisions made by a board of directors, and liability for fundraising and other events!
To meet the needs of these clients, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has created a unique relationship with experts in insurance. The firm of Maury, Donnelly and Parr (MDP), which has been protecting their clients' assets since 1875 and itself, located in a beautiful historic building in downtown Baltimore, provides assistance to non-profits, preservation organizations, and museums, in evaluating their exposures to loss and obtaining the coverage these organizations need to protect their assets, through National Trust Insurance Services, LLC. Our clients range from the historic homeowner, to turn-of-the-century Victorian house museums, to nationally recognized theatres, art & cultural institutions.
The majority of our clients and most of our agents are with FFIC: Fireman’s Fund Policy Holders: 1.888.FIREHAT - 1.888.347.3428 http://www.firemansfund.com/Pages/report-a-claim.htm - for online and phone reporting information. www.facebook.com/disasterinfo - for information about disasters before, during and after they strike.
Hi everyone I live in the Thornton Park neighborhood - it is a great neighborhood but....I cannot get insurance for my house - any ideas?
Raymond C. replied:
The National Trust has some recommended insurers. I understand they are not the cheapest but have good coverage for historic homes. http://nationaltrust-insurance.org/