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by joezydeco 2118 days ago
It could have been worse. I know of one studio that sent a debug version to the duplication factory by accident. It killed the company.
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Did the company not have insurance?
Now I’m curious: what kinds of insurance would such a company have?
I think I've heard of this in relation to housing contracts on TV (back when I watched stuff like Holmes on Homes).

Errors and Omissions insurance?

If you have the money for the premium, you can get just about any kind of coverage you want. There are coverage types that protect a company from an honest mistake ruining the company. While the payout may not be able to keep the company intact, it could at least keep from total collapse. Insurance to protect if you get sued for mistakes. These are not the types of things you worry about as an employee of bigCorp, but in a start up, you learn about these things quickly if you find good business advisors.