Wedding Insurance trying to get out of Covid-19

michelle09

I am curious to how many outbreaks there would actually be that could stop a wedding that aren't notifiable. The notifiable list is comprehensive.

• Acute encephalitis
• Acute infectious hepatitis
• Acute meningitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Cholera
• COVID-19
• Diphtheria
• Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
• Food poisoning
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Infectious bloody diarrhoea
• Invasive group A streptococcal disease
• Legionnaires’ disease
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal septicaemia
• Mumps
• Plague
• Rabies
• Rubella
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhus
• Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

Report other diseases that may present significant risk to human health under the category ‘other significant disease’.

Hy09fkm

MikePreedy said:

We have insurance with the same company and my daughter's wedding is at the end of May. They came out with the same waffle to us. We are getting a lawyer to look at it because when we looked at the policy, the same as you, we though phew we are covered when we saw about the infectious diseases, but as always they are looking for a way out of paying up, always happy to take your premium though.

I would really value knowing what your lawyer says if you are happy to share. My wedding was due at the beginning of May and am dealing with them trying to get out of paying based on it being due to government guidelines causing venues to cancel. They say this counts as an 'act or regulation' by government but I think that only applies to act of parliament and secondary legislation?