This chapter discusses the importance of protecting yourself and your movie. Setting up a production company is one the first steps. Many studios do this for individual films in order to protect the parent company. Next it's vital to use a payroll company as the “employer of record” to pay your staff and crew; the cost of doing payroll on your own is very high. Finally, you have to have production insurance for your movie. A typical producers package includes insurance for general liability, third party loss and damage, faulty stock and negative film and video, equipment, vehicles, props/sets/wardrobe, extra expenses, union travel insurance, cast insurance, and E&O (errors and omissions).