London’s ExCel Centre Wins Test Case Over £16 Million COVID-19 Insurance Claim

London’s ExCel Centre Wins Test Case Over £16 Million COVID-19 Insurance Claim
The Excel centre in east London on May 23, 2023. Rebecca Speare-Cole/PA
Lily Zhou
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The Exhibition Centre London (ExCeL) has won a court case over £16 million of COVID-19 business interruption (BI) insurance claims, which its lawyers say will potentially allow “hundreds of thousands of policyholders” to make the same claim.

Pizza Express and a dozen of other businesses were also the winners in the six test cases, in which businesses sought insurance payment under their “at the premises (ATP)” disease policies for business closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.