Bar Bending Performers Public Liability Insurance for Strength Acts, Shows, Demonstrations and Events

Bar Bending Performers Public Liability Insurance can help protect a professional performer against covered allegations of accidental injury or property damage involving third parties. The wider arrangement can also consider equipment, employees, storage and other declared business activities.

Professional performers may be considered for declared bar bending shows, demonstrations and event work. The specialist broker will need to understand what the act involves, the props used and where performances take place.

A self-employed performer can describe the complete business, including performances, equipment, venues, audience arrangements, transport, storage and any additional strength acts.

Professional strength performers may be considered where their complete repertoire is accurately described rather than relying on a general description such as a strength act.

Professional feats-of-strength entertainment may be considered depending on the individual activities, props, audiences, venues and other circumstances.

A professional entertainment act using strongman-style presentation or strength demonstrations may be considered. Competitive strongman sport is a separate activity and should not be assumed to be included.

Yes. Bar bending may form one part of a larger professional show, but all materially different performance activities should be declared.

The performer should describe the bars and other props actually used. Do not assume every material, object or performance technique is automatically acceptable.

Where nail bending or similar strength demonstrations form part of a professional performance, they should be specifically declared.

Breaking or destroying objects can be materially different from bar bending and should be specifically declared so the specialist broker can consider the complete performance.

Crushing or similar strength demonstrations should be separately declared rather than assumed to be included automatically.

Where a professional act includes lifting or carrying specialist performance props, explain what is lifted and how the activity forms part of the show.

Materially different stunts should be specifically declared. A policy arranged around bar bending should not be assumed to cover every possible strength stunt.

Yes. Solo professional performers can describe their act, equipment, venues, audiences and other business activities for consideration.

A coordinated two-person act may be considered where both performers and their activities are accurately described.

Larger professional teams should explain the number of performers, the different acts, assistants, employees, props and venues involved.

Assistants may help prepare props, move equipment, manage the performance area or participate in the act. Their roles should be declared.

Where a business engages freelance performers, their status and actual activities should be accurately described.

Businesses employing performers, assistants, administrators, technical staff or event workers should declare their workforce.

Professional acts may perform at theatres as part of a declared entertainment or variety programme.

Festival performances may be considered where the act, performance area, audience arrangements and event responsibilities are described.

Professional strength entertainment may be provided at fairs and public events where the activities and event arrangements are declared.

Professional performers may be booked for company celebrations, conferences, launches, promotional events and other corporate entertainment.

Scheduled strength demonstrations may take place at exhibitions and trade events where declared.

Suitable private functions may form part of a professional performer's declared work.

Professional acts may perform at hotels and other suitable hospitality or event venues.

Outdoor shows may be considered where the event location, performance area, props and audience arrangements are described.

Yes. Mobile performers may work at many third-party venues throughout the year.

A mobile performer may provide a declared act at suitable premises arranged by a customer or event organiser.

Where performances use temporary stages or performance areas, the performer should explain their responsibilities and the event arrangements.

Yes, but organising an event can create responsibilities beyond simply providing an act. Venue arrangements, ticketing, audiences, other performers, contractors and event equipment should be described.

Yes. Bar bending performers may appear on the same programme as other entertainers, but unrelated performers should not be assumed to be insured by the bar bending performer's policy.

Audience participation should be specifically declared because it can materially change the nature of the performance.

Where volunteers are invited into the active performance area, explain exactly what they do so the specialist broker can consider the activity.

Any arrangement allowing audience members to handle props should be specifically declared.

A performer or organiser may use suitable barriers or other arrangements to define the active performance area where declared.

Business-owned props may be considered under suitable Business Contents or other applicable cover depending on the property, values and circumstances.

Professional costumes and performance clothing may form part of declared Business Contents.

Cases used for professional props, sound equipment and other business property may form part of declared Business Contents.

Business-owned microphones, speakers, mixers and related sound equipment may be considered where declared.

Portable performance lighting owned by the business may be considered where its use, values and storage are declared.

Banners, display boards and other business signage may form part of declared Business Contents.

Tools used for legitimate preparation, maintenance or adjustment of performance equipment should form part of the business description where relevant.

A workshop may be used for prop preparation, equipment maintenance, repairs or storage. The actual activities undertaken should be declared.

Where sound, lighting or other event equipment is hired, the performer should explain their responsibility for the property.

Established performers may sell branded clothing, posters, signed merchandise or other suitable promotional products where declared.

Physical merchandise may be sold at declared performances and events.

Products may be sold through websites, marketplaces or social media where this forms part of the business.

Product Liability may be relevant where physical products are manufactured, imported, supplied, sold or own-branded. It is not necessarily a core requirement for a performer who does not sell products.

If the business genuinely manufactures commercial products for sale or supply, the products, materials, processes, machinery and distribution should be declared. Manufacturing should not be assumed simply because a performer prepares their own props.

Many self-employed performers manage bookings, accounts, marketing, event planning and administration from home.

A genuine commercial home studio may be relevant where it is used for professional filming, content production, rehearsal or another declared activity. It should not be added simply for SEO.

Professional performers may hire or operate suitable rehearsal premises. The activities undertaken during rehearsals should be declared.

An established performance business may use a commercial unit for equipment, prop preparation, administration, rehearsal or storage.

Professional performers may receive booking enquiries through websites, email and other digital systems.

Performers may use social platforms for marketing, performance clips, event promotion and customer enquiries.

Cyber Insurance may be relevant where the business relies on websites, email, online bookings, customer information, digital payments or other online services.

Business Contents may be relevant for props, cases, costumes, tools, computers, sound equipment, portable lighting, signage and other declared business property.

Business Stock may be relevant where the performer holds merchandise or other physical products for sale.

Suitable props and equipment may be stored at home where the arrangement and values are declared.

Suitable business equipment may be stored in a garage where declared and subject to applicable policy conditions.

Suitable equipment may be kept in a secure outbuilding where declared.

A workshop may be used for equipment storage as well as declared preparation or maintenance activities.

Larger performance businesses may use commercial storage premises for props and event equipment.

Self storage may be relevant for performance props, transport cases, costumes, sound equipment, lighting, signage, barriers, merchandise and other suitable business property.

Yes. Business property may be divided between a home, garage, outbuilding, workshop, commercial unit and self-storage facility. Relevant locations should be declared.

Goods in Transit may be relevant where props, costumes, cases, sound equipment, lighting, signage or merchandise are transported between locations.

Business property regularly moved between declared venues may be considered under suitable Goods in Transit cover, subject to policy terms and restrictions.

Smaller professional acts may use a car to transport props and equipment. Do not assume that motor insurance or cover for business property inside the vehicle is automatically included.

Larger acts may use a van for props, cases and technical equipment. Vehicle use and the property carried should be accurately described.

Where a trailer is used to transport business equipment, this should be declared.

No. Security requirements, unattended vehicle restrictions and other policy conditions may apply.

Where business property remains at a third-party venue before or after a show, this should be declared where relevant.

Public Liability may respond to covered allegations of accidental injury or property damage involving third parties, subject to the circumstances, activities declared and policy terms.

A spectator may allege injury connected with a declared performance. Whether cover applies depends on the circumstances and policy terms.

A venue or event organiser may allege accidental property damage caused by the performer's declared activities. Any cover depends on the circumstances and policy wording.

Incidents involving third parties can occur while declared performance equipment is being moved or an event area is being prepared, subject to applicable policy terms.

It can. Audience participation changes the nature of the interaction between performer and spectator and should be specifically declared.

This depends on the workforce and applicable requirements. Performers, assistants, administrators, technical staff and other employees should be accurately declared.

No. The status and working arrangements of freelancers and contractors should be accurately described.

Professional Indemnity may be relevant where the business separately provides paid professional instruction, training, consultancy or specialist advice. It is not necessarily central to a straightforward performance act.

Commercial Property may be relevant where the business owns or has responsibility for offices, commercial units, workshops, rehearsal premises or other business property.

Business Interruption may be relevant where insured damage to important premises or insured equipment materially disrupts the performance business.

Competitive strongman is a distinct sporting activity and should be separately declared rather than assumed to be included within insurance arranged for a professional bar bending entertainment act.

Powerlifting is a separate activity and should not be assumed to form part of a bar bending performance policy.

Competitive or coached weightlifting is materially different from a professional bar bending entertainment act and should be separately declared.

Explain what the act involves, props used, additional feats of strength, audience participation, typical venues, festivals and events, assistants, employees, freelancers, sound and lighting equipment, merchandise, online activity, business equipment values, storage, vehicles, trailers and any other entertainment activities provided.