News

Free Spirit Travel Offers Covid-19 Cover – Inc Pre-Existing Conditions

As travel restrictions are lifted, both in the UK and further afield, Free Spirit Travel (FST) – part of P J Hayman and Company – are now providing COVID-19 insurance cover. According to a customer […]

Legal

Covid-19 Claims: Markel Faces Legal Action By Gym Owners in The USA

Leading plaintiffs’ law firm Grant & Eisenhofer has filed suit against Markel Insurance Co. for failing to accept claims from franchisees of national fitness chain Anytime Fitness that were shuttered and lost business due to state-imposed COVID-19 […]

News

Saga & Staysure Boldly Go into Covid-19 Cover – Includes Cruise Holidays

Saga has announced that treatment abroad for Covid-19 and repatriation to the UK will be included as standard as part of its travel insurance policies for all trips from 1st June. Saga has added the cover […]

Global insurance trends

Allianz Partners Looks at the World After Corona; Dull, Regulated Life Ahead

With the end of the global pandemic predicted to come in December 2021, a new way of living will emerge and the world will be very different, says Allianz Partners. They commissioned Futurologist Ray Hammond […]

Insurance Regulation

Mactavish Reaction to FCA Update on Business Interruption Claims

The FCA has today (10th June 2020) provided an update on its High Court test case concerning business interruption (BI) insurance, and published documents relating to this. However, Mactavish, the specialist insurance buyer and claims resolution […]

Global insurance trends

Zurich Offers Insights Into a Post-Covid19 World

John Scott, Head of Sustainability Risk and Zurich Insurance comments in the WEF & Zurich Insurance Covid-19 Risk report: “Increasing inequality, dramatically shifting consumer behaviors and a lockdown that is having a significant toll on young people’s prospects, […]

Motor Insurance

Car Shows: Silverstone Classic 2020 is Cancelled

Here’s the latest from the organisers, as another great classic car event gets canned by Corona. It is with a heavy heart that the organisers of the Silverstone Classic announce that this summer’s flagship three-day […]