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Shannon Shannon

Shannon Shannon

Commercial insurance broker and Partner at Paisley Partners, a Navacord brokerage, specializing in commercial and IP insurance; guest on the Canadian IP Voices podcast.

Sep 4, 2026

16:39
They're mostly concerned about US and Europe and Asia.
16:43
I also kind of wanted to talk about how many companies I speak with assume that they're covered for IP risk under another policy, right? But in reality, traditional policies only go so far.
16:57
So for example, General liability policies, many people think because they see the words intellectual property in their CGL policy that they're covered for any IP risk, but it only covers a very narrow slice of intellectual property like money.
17:14
advertising-related issues, and very often, I think, exclusively exclude things like patents entirely.
17:23
Cyber insurance policy, a lot of clients will assume that they see a mention of IP in their cyber insurance, but that's just focused on data and privacy.
17:33
Cyber policies do not respond to IP disputes necessarily.
17:38
And even errors and omissions or, you know, coverage where it exists is usually quite limited when it comes to intellectual property.
20:26
And how involved do I stay in this process as somebody who pays the premium?

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