Briefing: The current BI legal fight is a very ugly look for insurers

By Saxon East 2020-07-22T11:42:00

Even if they win, the optics of insurers battling their customers in court will harm the industry

This one is very ugly. Insurers battling their own customers in court as they argue over the meaning of words, so they don’t have to pay claims.

Claims which will keep jobs going and people’s dreams alive through the biggest crisis since the Second World War.

Perhaps insurers might win the case, although the smart betting is now on them losing.

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