Covid-19: event cancellation insurance

The issue in Outback Music Festival Group Pty Ltd v Everest Syndicate 2786 at Lloyd’s [2022] FCA 13 was whether losses suffered by promoters of a music festival due to be held in Queensland in July 2020 following its cancellation fell within an insurance policy exclusion for losses resulting from a governmental response to infectious diseases. Allsop CJ dismissed the insurance claim.

Outback Music: the facts