NFU Mutual sticks to its guns in coverage dispute
NFU Mutual has maintained that 38 businesses suing the insurer for Covid-era losses are not entitled to be indemnified under the terms of an extension to their policies.
In a legal defence served earlier this week, NFU Mutual said that its position was in line with existing legal judgments on other Covid-related business interruption disputes.
The businesses seeking to
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