Can I just buy event insurance?
You can purchase an event insurance extension to your membership at any point through our member’s area or the myBMABA app.
What Does It Cost?
For non-contact and semi-contact events with up to 500 spectators, the cost of £2,000,000 Event Public Liability insurance is £139.99. For full contact, it becomes £199.99. We can also provide £5,000,000 Public Liability for a small surcharge.
Will it cover full-contact fighting?
There’s a bit of a misunderstanding within our industry surrounding events insurance and competitors insurance, as they’re not the same. It’s very hard (and expensive) to cover a competitor for injury. This is quite simply because there is a very heightened risk of injury, inherently, because of the nature of sparring or competition.
Public Liability is unlikely to be effective by default too, because of Volenti non fit injuria (a common law doctrine which states that if someone willingly places themselves in a position where harm might result, knowing that some degree of harm might result, they are not able to bring a claim against the other party in tort or delict).
With this in mind, it won’t provide ‘fighter insurance’ and we will go out on the limb and state that no off the shelf event cover policy will provide this cover for less than £1,000. If you can find it elsewhere, your event cover with us is on the house.