When doing a story about hunting exposures and insurance to cover such risks, the Feb. 11, 2006 accidental shooting of a companion by Vice President Dick Cheney inevitably comes up.
Vice President Cheney shot 78-year-old Henry Whittington with birdshot pellets from a 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun during a quail hunt on a Texas ranch, prompting a media blitz at the time–including wide use of satirical images photo-shopping Mr. Cheney's face onto the body of cartoon hunter Elmer Fudd.
On a more serious note, however, Chris Heavrin, an underwriter for Markel, looking at the insurance implications of such hunting accidents, said that if a guide had been leading Vice President Cheney's hunting party, then that might have been a risk that Markel could have covered.
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