Covid19 - Will insurance cover it?
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Wedding plans in ruins, holidays cancelled, business on hold and landlords unable to rent out their properties.
This is exactly the kind of unexpected scenario we buy insurance policies for, but are they written to cover once in a century events like the coronavirus outbreak?
Our panel of experts answer your questions on insurance policies and claims.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:10.8 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
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| 0:35.0 | check out BBC Sounds. |
| 0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Good afternoon. |
| 0:43.3 | Today we're talking about your insurance policies |
| 0:46.3 | and whether they protect you for losses from the coronavirus. |
| 0:49.3 | You may have income protection insurance, |
| 0:52.3 | travel cover, a policy for your small business. |
| 0:55.7 | Are you wondering if you can claim? |
| 0:58.3 | Well, today's Moneybox Live is here to give you some answers. |
| 1:01.3 | But for that, we need your insurance questions. |
| 1:05.0 | So please email Moneybox at BBC.co.uk or tweet at Moneybox. Well, let's start with weddings, as spring and summer is a popular |
| 1:15.2 | time for getting married. Given that the average nuptials cost over £20,000, many couples opt to buy |
| 1:23.1 | insurance in case things go wrong. Well, let's hear from Haley. She'd been planning to get married in June. |
| 1:29.7 | Our wedding venue won't cancel our early June wedding. And so at the moment, we've means we're going to |
| 1:34.4 | incur a full cancellation fee for an event that we think is dangerous to hold. We do have insurance, |
| 1:39.7 | but I doubt that we'd be able to claim on this as technically we would be canceling rather than |
| 1:44.0 | them. |
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