Insurance companies will have to pay millions to travelers who got stranded due to the Volcanic Ash problem. Travellers whose holiday plans have been affected by cancellations due to the volcanic ash that grounded UK flights may not have their travel insurance claims paid.
The travel insurance industry is generally paying claims to travelers stranded in Europe and elsewhere by the drifting Icelandic volcanic ash, treating it mostly as a weather-related event in their policies, industry officials said. Some said the claims were expected to total millions of dollars.
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