Cancelled Hellfest tells insurer: “F**k you!”
In an angry broadside at Albingia, the promoter of the French metal festival says it paid €175,000 for an ultimately useless insurance policy
News By IQ | 9 April 2020
French metal festival Hellfest Open Air has hit out at what it calls the “shameful” behaviour of its insurance company after being forced to cancel its 2020 edition, originally scheduled for 19–21 June.
In an extraordinary statement posted to the festival’s website, promoter Hellfest Productions – which has been ordered by French authorities to pull the 2020 event because of Covid-19 – says Albingia is refusing to pay out, despite Hellfest having taken out cover specifically for pandemics, as the “type”…
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