Beazley Launches Combined Event Cancellation Coverage

June 10, 2016

Beazley has introduced Cancellation Plus, an endorsement that combines event cancellation coverage with protection for reduced ticket sales and concessions in the event of poor weather depressing event revenues. Beazley provides cancellation coverage for thousands of events annually, including many of the largest festivals, concerts and sporting events worldwide.

Beazley’s Cancellation Plus coverage enables event organizers to help recoup costs for both cancelled events and those that go on while suffering from poor attendance due to conditions that are exceptionally rainy, cold or hot. Policies with a Cancellation Plus endorsement provide a sublimit to pay out a percentage of projected gross revenues once an agreed trigger and coverage time period is reached – for example, half an inch of rain between 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm.

“Events can be cancelled for a wide range of reasons outside their organizers’ control, including non-appearance by performers, power failure and adverse weather,” said Christian Phillips, Beazley’s U.S. focus group leader for contingency business. “But there are also numerous events that are not cancelled but that merely limp on, with revenues seriously impacted by poor weather. Cancellation Plus covers event organizers for both contingencies, at a markedly lower price than they would pay for buying both forms of coverage separately.”

Beazley plc is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Beazley manages six Lloyd’s syndicates. Beazley’s underwriters in the U.S. focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products. In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., and in the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd’s.

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