South African Insurer Santam to Appeal COVID-19 Business Interruption Ruling November 20, 2020 Santam said on Friday it would appeal against a court ruling that found South Africa’s largest non-life insurer liable to...
South African Insurer Santam Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Test Case November 18, 2020 By Roxanne Henderson A Cape Town court ordered Santam Ltd. to pay out business-interruption claims to two South African hospitality companies, potentially opening...
S. Africa’s Regulator to Clarify Policyholders’ Rights in Pandemic Insurance Claims August 7, 2020 By Emma Rumney South Africa’s financial watchdog is consulting with lawyers and the insurance industry on a potential test case to clarify whether...
S. Africa Insurers’ COVID-19 Payments May Be Too Little, Too Late, for Some Businesses July 31, 2020 By Emma Rumney and Joe Bavier South African small businesses fighting rejected coronavirus-related claims said insurers’ offers of relief are too little too late for many...
S. African Insurers Bow to Policyholder Demands to Pay COVID Biz Interruption Relief July 29, 2020 By Roxanne Henderson South African insurers are bowing to demands for the payment of losses that businesses suffered during the nation’s lockdown. Momentum...
South Africa Retailer Steinhoff Offers $1B to Settle Global Accounting Fraud Lawsuits July 27, 2020 South Africa’s Steinhoff has proposed to pay around $1 billion to settle outstanding legal claims following a massive accounting fraud,...
South African Insurer Santam to Pay Virus Relief to Clients with Biz Interruption Cover July 27, 2020 By Roxanne Henderson South Africa’s largest property and casualty insurer will pay as much as one billion rand ($60 million) in relief to...
S. African Regulator Says Business Interruption Virus Claims Don’t Pose Systemic Risk July 16, 2020 By Roxanne Henderson South Africa’s Prudential Authority expects that business-interruption claims linked to the Covid-19 pandemic poses little systemic risk to the insurance...
South Africa Regulator Warns Insurers to Stop Broad Rejection of Virus Claims July 10, 2020 By Roxanne Henderson A South African regulator warned insurers to stop broadly rejecting claims from businesses seeking to cover losses because of a...
S. African Insurers Are Pushed to Pay COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims July 2, 2020 Virus-related claims from just over 500 small South African firms battling insurers who have rejected them are worth up to...