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Insurers might restrict business-interruption cover after UK ruling, Argenta lawyer says

By Fiona Maxwell
  • 22 Jan 2021 08:04
  • 23 Feb 2021 08:51
Insurance cover is likely to be tightened to prevent unforeseen payouts for notifiable diseases after insurers suffered a high-profile loss at the UK's Supreme Court, said the lawyer representing insurance company Argenta.

Simon Salzedo told an online event* today that wording contained in business-interruption policies would likely be changed to tak

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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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