WARREN, NJ.- The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies will sponsor the Public Broadcast System’s airing of STOLEN, a documentary about the 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The documentary will be featured on “Independent Lens” from March 20 to April 8 on PBS stations nationwide.

The $500-million heist is one of the largest fine arts thefts ever. Posing as police officers, thieves cut 13 canvases from their frames and walked off with such masterpieces as Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” and Vermeer’s “The Concert.”

“Unfortunately, the works were not insured, and 17 years later, the art world still holds out hope that they will be returned to their frames,” said Dorit Straus, vice president of Chubb & Son and worldwide fine arts manager of Chubb Personal Insurance.

Directed by award-winning independent filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus, the documentary explores the unusual, unsolved crime through the colorful cast of characters surrounding the search for the masterpieces and the culprits.

Chubb insures many of the world’s leading collectors of art. Its Masterpiece® Valuable Articles Coverage provides art collectors with insurance solutions that respond to changing market values. The company’s collector specialists analyze market trends, conduct premises surveys of display and storage conditions and security and fire protection systems, and make referrals to conservators, restorers, art shippers and other art-related experts. Other Masterpiece products provide insurance protection for fine homes, autos, watercraft and personal and excess liability protection.

The member insurers of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies form a multi-billion dollar organization providing property and casualty insurance for personal and commercial customers worldwide through 8,000 independent agents and brokers. Chubb's global network includes branches and affiliates in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia.