Blog: Pandemic - what is covered?
Biba's executive director, Graeme Trudgill, addresses the big question around business interruption and Covid-19.
Coronavirus has led to some of the most challenging times for our members and their clients. The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) team has been dealing with hundreds of enquiries ranging from BI cover to engineering inspection, to unoccupied properties and payment holidays.
What is the answer?
This crisis takes me back to starting my CII studies where my first learning point was why it is unusual to comprehensively insure ‘fundamental’ risks.
These are risks, mostly emanating
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