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UK court sides with policyholders in COVID BI case
15th September 2020
The UK’s High Court has passed its long-awaited judgement on the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) business interruption (BI) insurance test case, ruling in favour of policyholders on the majority of key issues. The financial regulator brought the case forward in May to seek legal clarity on whether insurers were obligated ... Read the full article
CII underlines three measures to help avoid future FCA test cases
15th September 2020
The Chartered Insurance Institute has urged insurance professionals and government to act now to reduce the need for legal proceedings like the FCA’s business interruption test case in future. The re/insurance industry is anxiously awaiting a verdict from the UK courts later today about whether insurers will ultimately be liable for ... Read the full article
BI uncertainty will not be resolved by Jan 1: GC’s Lara Mowery
11th September 2020
Lara Mowery, Global Head of Distribution at reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter (GC), has argued that the upcoming January 1 renewals are likely to be complicated by continued uncertainty about the scale of business interruption losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking as part of a press briefing in which GC executives ... Read the full article
Billions at stake ahead of FCA court ruling: Deutsche Bank
10th September 2020
Commentary from Deutsche Bank highlights that billions of pounds in potential insurance claims are at stake ahead of the imminent court judgement on the FCA’s business interruption (BI) case. The re/insurance industry is anxiously awaiting a verdict from the UK courts in the coming days about whether insurers will ultimately ... Read the full article
ICA to launch test case for pandemic BI exclusions
7th September 2020
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) are due to launch a test case in order to examine the application of certain infectious diseases exclusions in business interruption policies. The case will be heard by the NSW Court of Appeal where the hearing is due to start on Friday October 2. ICA CEO ... Read the full article
COVID-19 looking more like an earnings event than a capital event: David Flandro
24th August 2020
Speaking during a recent second quarter earnings update, Hyperion X's David Flandro outlined a belief that COVID-19 is looking more like an earnings event than a capital event, despite the sizeable difficulties remaining for the re/insurance sector as a result of the pandemic. Flandro, noting how reinsurers have taken a larger ... Read the full article
Brokers may face a Covid-19 BI wordings E&O storm from two sides
19th August 2020
Brokers face a risk of coming under fire from two sides as the litigation and complaints over pandemic related business interruption from Covid-19 spread, with the potential for intermediaries to find themselves in the middle of an E&O storm. With carriers stating that pandemic related business interruption was never envisaged to ... Read the full article
Courts rule insurers not responsible for COVID-19 BI losses
11th August 2020
American multinational investment bank, Morgan Stanley (MS), has commented on a decision made by the Superior Court of D.C. which finds that the COVID-19 pandemic does not cause direct physical damage which would be a required trigger for business interruption (BI). According to MS, this ruling offers further support for its ... Read the full article
Australia’s ICA & AFCA seek court decision on pandemic BI claims
31st July 2020
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) and the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) have agreed to file a test case considering the application of infectious diseases cover in business interruption (BI) policies. The purpose of the test case is to seek a decision from a superior court on whether quarantinable diseases ... Read the full article
Santam approves $61mn relief payment for virus disruption
27th July 2020
South African insurer Santam has approved up to R1 billion (US $61 million) of relief payments for businesses hit by COVID-19 related disruption following an order by the country’s regulators. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and the Prudential Authority (PA) have told non-life insurers to make one-off payments to ... Read the full article
South African insurers to make relief payments to virus-hit businesses
27th July 2020
South African regulators the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and the Prudential Authority (PA) have told non-life insurers to make one-off relief payments to businesses hit by COVID-19 losses as the market awaits a court decision on business interruption (BI) claims. The FSCA explained that these payments would allow businesses to ... Read the full article
Chubb proposes $1.15tn state-backed pandemic BI scheme
9th July 2020
Global insurer and reinsurer Chubb has put forward a proposal for a public-private partnership program to provide business interruption (BI) cover for all kinds of US business ahead of the next pandemic. The company envisions the scheme’s total capacity at around $1.15 trillion, consisting of an aggregate limit of $750 billion ... Read the full article
Bank of England voices concern over virus BI claims
8th July 2020
Anna Sweeney, the Bank of England’s (BoE) executive director for insurance, has said that business interruption (BI) related to the COVID-19 pandemic claims remain a serious concern for the UK insurance and reinsurance industries. Her comments come as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) prepares to seek legal clarity on whether ... Read the full article
Cape Town restaurant wins COVID-19 BI claims court battle against insurer
8th July 2020
Café Chameleon, a restaurant in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, recently won an important COVID-19-related insurance claims court battle against insurer Guardrisk Insurance, a division of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings. To mitigate the spread of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, South Africa, like many other countries around the world, entered into a ... Read the full article
COVID-19 will drive “significant changes” to BI policy wordings: market survey
26th June 2020
67.6% of respondents to our comprehensive re/insurance market survey believe the COVID-19 pandemic will result in 'significant changes' to business interruption policy wordings. This new COVID-19 market survey was undertaken in collaboration with our ILS-focused sister-site Artemis, and was a follow-up to our April survey. We received responses from ... Read the full article
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