Hosted by Dominic Christian, Global Chairman of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions, Mr. Hahn said that the wording in pandemic insurance contracts written in Asia Pacific were often tighter than in more developed markets due to the region’s additional experience with contagious diseases.

“Specifically, when you look at COVID-19, this part of the world is going through its fifth epidemic this century, and this century is only 20 years old. There are much less problems on the wordings side in respect of pandemics in Asia,” he said.

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