Blog: How has lockdown affected policyholders requiring alternative accommodation?
It is unquestionable that lockdown measures as a result of Covid-19 have affected each and every person living in the UK. But imagine being ‘locked down’ away from your own home; without all your personal belongings and in your ‘safe place’ – your home. Alisa Gold, marketing and business development co-ordinator at ICAB, explains that's the reality for thousands of policyholders across the UK who are currently undergoing an insurance claim in their home that resulted in them requiring alternative accommodation.
When the government announced these measures in the final week of March, insurers and their supply chain of alternative accommodation suppliers had to act very fast. Hotels were shutting with
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