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Business Interruption Period

The Length of the Road Back from Disaster

Four Rules for Measuring the Business Interruption Period

How long does a business suffer the consequences after a disaster strikes and how long should the insurer pay a business income loss?

There are four major, distinct rules that should be followed. The case law is remarkably consistent in applying these rules.

"When one reads the seminal cases addressing a “theoretical” BI period, one finds that the theoretical approach is adopted only in such circumstances when there is no actual repair period available to otherwise define the BI period."