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Silk and love of exclusions

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When the silky embrace gets you anywhere. Within a couple of weeks after the Semana Grande , San Sebastián will have one of its famous hotels full of cinema anoraks.   No one will be excluded from this wonderful event. A worrying trend making the role of contract wordings anoraks so useful is the misunderstanding of exclusions and their unique relationship with coverage extensions. Let us focus on the remote days when the market was sitting on the edge of LMP (London Market Principles) and close to adopt the Market Reform Standards. Twenty years or so later we are now sitting alongside the Market Reform Contract MRC V2.1 and the IMRC. An exclusion would be amended, deleted in part or in full. An exclusion would not apply to a particular scenario. Similarly, a coverage extension would be satisfactorily secured if it explained what was happening with an existing exclusion.   A coverage extension may be obtained until a set amount and beyond that amount the exclusion app...