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Kyle Gibson

Compliance Auditor, InsureShip

  • Licensed insurance professional
  • 15+ years in insurance & compliance
  • Writes and reviews InsureShip guides
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15+ yearsin insurance and compliance
Licensedinsurance professional
50+ guideswritten and reviewed for InsureShip

About Kyle

Kyle Gibson is InsureShip's Compliance Auditor. He is a licensed insurance professional with more than 15 years of experience in insurance and compliance, and he writes and reviews the shipping insurance guides published on InsureShip.com.

That background shapes how InsureShip explains coverage to merchants: clearly, without overstating what a policy covers, and with attention to the regulatory side of selling insurance to customers at checkout.

Kyle checks InsureShip's educational content for accuracy before and after it is published.

What Kyle reviews

Every guide is checked against the points merchants most often get wrong when they offer shipping protection.

Coverage, exclusions and limits

How shipping insurance coverage is described, so merchants know what is and isn't covered.

Claims and documentation

Claim steps, documentation requirements and timelines.

Carrier liability

Carrier liability and declared value rules for USPS, UPS and FedEx.

Licensed vs. unlicensed protection

The difference between licensed shipping insurance and unlicensed "package protection" programs.

Checkout compliance

Compliance language for merchants who offer protection at checkout.

Corrections

Reader notes about anything inaccurate or out of date are passed to Kyle for review.

Spotted something out of date?

If anything in one of our guides looks inaccurate or out of date, contact InsureShip and the note will reach Kyle for review.

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Guides by Kyle Gibson

Shipping insurance guides for Shopify, WooCommerce and ecommerce merchants, written and reviewed by Kyle.

Guides by Kyle Gibson