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Insurers face more Covid-19 payouts as UK's top court rules for policyholders in test case (update*)

By Fiona Maxwell
  • 15 Jan 2021 05:43
  • 23 Feb 2021 08:54
Insurers look to be on the hook for more Covid-19 payouts to businesses forced to close in the UK's nationwide lockdown last year, after the country's highest court ruled substantially in favor of policyholders today.
In a keenly anticipated appeal ruling, the Supreme Court overturned some judgments made by the High Court

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Fiona Maxwell

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Fiona Maxwell is a financial services senior correspondent at MLex in London. She began her career as a reporter for Risk.net, writing about EU post-crisis regulation, and later worked for POLITICO in Brussels, covering the intersect between financial policy and politics. Prior to joining MLex, Fiona worked at the Bank of England as a policy adviser in the prudential policy directorate.

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