If you collect fine art – even if your collection is small – you know how valuable it is in terms of the pleasure it brings you and your family and in terms of its financial value. If you are relying on your homeowner’s insurance to cover any losses in relation to your collection, however, you could be in for a rude awakening. Art collections are uniquely valuable, and this is exactly why your approach to insuring them must be uniquely specific. If you have an art collection, it’s time to consult with an experienced and dedicated FACE insurance professional.
Your homeowner’s insurance is almost certainly not sophisticated enough to adequately cover your private fine art collection. This coverage has deductibles, coverage limits, and exclusions that aren’t geared toward valuable art investments. While it’s possible to purchase this kind of coverage for specific pieces of art, this tends to protect you only for that piece and only for its most recent appraisal value. This simply isn’t adequate to the value of an art collection – the whole of which may well be greater than the sum of its parts.
Further, your collection may not lie financially dormant between appraisals (which should be performed regularly) – it’s complicated and requires a nuanced coverage approach. The fact is that brokers of homeowners’ insurance are often hard-pressed to understand the unique value of art collections, which makes it almost impossible for them to insure these valuable assets properly.
Whether your collection is your own private collection that never leaves your home, is your private collection that you occasionally loan out (either in part or as a whole), or is a commercial collection (whether a studio collection for purchase or a collection for public viewing), you have significant fine art insurance needs. And these are difficult to adequately address without knowledgeable assistance from a fine art insurance professional who’s best practiced in the provision of comprehensive coverage that protects art collections from damage, theft, and beyond.
Fine art collections can be any size and can take many forms, but art collections tend to focus on specific categories of fine art like the following:
You’ve poured a lot into your collection, and ensuring that you’re protecting it to the best of your ability is critical to maximizing both your enjoyment of the collection and its value.
Most fine art collections are delicate and prone to deterioration if they’re not kept in a carefully controlled environment. The most serious threats to art collections include:
Your art collection is likely more vulnerable to damage and loss than you realize, but there are proactive, protective steps you can take to help. One of the most important of these steps is investing in the best art insurance for you and your collection. Contact us today!
Your should contact the police as soon as possible. The quicker you act, the faster the authorities will be able to collect information regarding your stolen item. Your insurance agent should also be notified right after you have made contact with the police.
The most common way art is stolen is Burglary. It’s important that your installations have proper security in order to prevent these crimes from happening. Its also very important to make sure that the staff you higher to give your building maintenance has a clean record and has no criminal history.
Its responsibility of the insurance carrier to work with the FBI to recover the art that was stolen. It’s possible that you may be asked to work with the corresponding authority.
If your valuable art items are not insured, your efforts will have to be focused on working with the authorities to recover your stolen items. The odds of recovering your stolen items is very low.
