The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have been seeking guidance through a Test Case in the interpretation of certain policy wordings on Business Interruption and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The insurance market has always been subject to a ‘cycle’ with rates going down in competitive times and then up again when premiums become too low for Insurers to write profitable business. Now, after a prolonged period of decreasing premiums, rates are increasing.
We have been asking FSB members to participate in a survey on how businesses have been affected by the lockdown. The survey was intended to determine how a dual effort between the Government and Insurance industry can build a cashflow protection product to help businesses in the event of a future government lockdown.
FSB Insurance Service policyholder, Simon Cruickshank, was faced with flood damage to his business, Trouper’s Bar in Stonehaven, requiring a significant clean up and use of dehumidifiers just four weeks after reopening post-lockdown.
Many businesses operate either by working on-site, or by visiting peoples’ homes, and this requires vastly different considerations compared with working from your own premises.
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