Event insurance policies often don’t cover disease cancellation

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As gatherings like SXSW are stopped to slow COVID-19’s spread, participants are suffering losses. The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has been cancelled for the first time in 34 years and the lack of disease outbreak coverage in event insurance policies has left many participants out of luck. This year’s SXSW was supposed to take place in Austin, Texas, from March 13 to March 22. The two SXSW founders were cited in a recent media publication, saying that the organization did not have disease outbreak coverage in its event insurance…

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