Business Interruption
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News AnalysisCyber risk takes root on the farm as agriculture goes fully connected
‘Farmers are natural risk managers. They’ve been doing this for hundreds of years – in essence, since the dawn of man,’ says managing director
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News Analysis‘Amber flag’ solar panel fire risk demands action from commercial insurers
‘If we don’t recognise it’s happening, we don’t get control of it – it’s going to get out of control,’ says insurance risk engineer
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NewsFCA dismisses pleas for renewed Covid BI deadline extension
‘It is disappointing that the FCA is declining to take any further action when so many claims remain unresolved,’ says head of policyholder disputes
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NewsLast orders for Covid BI claims as hospitality urges FCA to step in
‘It is vital that adequate time is now allowed for the latest court decisions to be implemented,’ says head of policyholder disputes
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IT Awards 2025Insurance Times Awards 2025: Bspoke's Rosie Drummond making a 'meaningful' mark for young insurance talent
Rosie Drummond, business interruption developer at Bspoke Group, speaks about her entry for the Insurance Times Young Achiever Award
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NewsHigh Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 24 November to 28 November 2025.
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NewsPub chain launches £85m action against Marsh
‘The claim will be of interest to both the insurance and hospitality sectors in examining the professional standards brokers should be held to when placing insurance for groups of companies,’ says partner
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NewsHigh Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 20 October to 24 October 2025
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NewsJLR cyber incident ‘most economically damaging in UK history’
‘This incident appears to be the most economically damaging cyber event ever to hit the UK,’ says Cyber Monitoring Centre
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NewsAviva declares market first as it launches automatic 24-month BI uplift
‘Aviva is proud to lead the way with an automatic 24-month business interruption cover uplift, provided free of charge,’ says managing director
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NewsMining insurance market sees rate drops as new carriers and capacity enter
‘The mining insurance market is ripe for optimisation, but success hinges on proactive risk management,’ says global mining leader
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NewsHigh Five: Catch up on the biggest exclusive stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the biggest exclusive stories from 1 to 5 September 2025
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NewsTariff-linked supply chain disruptions ‘worse than Covid’, complicating business interruption
’The problems that these businesses are now having to solve are ones of financial and economic assessment that interfere with the supply and demand curve, rather than ones of physical production and distribution capacity,’ says head
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NewsHigh Court backs Bath Racecourse in landmark Covid BI ruling
‘Businesses with multiple premises may have separate limits and sublimits of indemnity,’ says law firm partner
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NewsBeazley accused of stalling as BI claim disputes head to court
’Our clients and this firm notified these claims in 2020 and they are still no further, despite the legal landscape changing so much in the favour of policyholders,’ says solicitor
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NewsMarsh launches €1bn insurance facility as data centre demand grows
‘Data centres are fast becoming the fourth utility and are the engine rooms of the global economy,’ says chief executive
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NewsCommercial Court Covid BI case set to impact composite policy interpretation
Law firm says interpretation of ‘any one loss’ could have market-wide impact
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Is the Covid linked business interruption claims backlog still an issue for UKGI?
Five years on from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Insurance Times asks insurance experts whether business interruption claims linked to the lockdowns are still causing challenges for insurers and what the scope of the potential backlog is
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News AnalysisThe complexity of business interruption insurance – and why innovation is lagging behind
Technology has already improved ‘low-hanging fruit’ problem areas, but now it is time to aim a little higher with AI tools, to better support claims handlers and end customers with detailed BI claims
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Are cyber insurers prepared for BI claims after July’s global outage incident?
Head of claims reports that cyber is an ‘ever-changing’ risk and that there is more variety in how BI claims can now present themselves
