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I once had a client who paid for my E&O insurance, because their policy
(and no other client's policy) required that I have it. This was nearly
a decade ago, in another country.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:13 PM
> To: Becky Edmondson; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: liability insurance
>
> Is this something you feel you need, or something a
> client is insisting you have? The one time someone
> mentioned this to me as a requirement, I told them
> that if I covered E&O for the documents I did for
> them rather than them covering it as part of a
> "work for hire" contract, then I would also retain
> all copyrights for the documents. By the end of the
> day they called me back and said E&O would not be
> required for the contract.
>
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