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Insurers spooked as Halloween’s ‘mischief night’ approaches

By 2022-09-29T14:03:00

Halloween pumpkins menacing

With Halloween fast approaching, many insurers will be on their guard as the night is one the biggest for car theft, vandalism, fires and burglaries – but the need for cover doesn’t end there for some haunted customers

Late one night, pub landlord of the Royal Falcon Hotel in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Terry Meggs witnessed a ghost shoot a row of glasses across the bar.

The incident prompted Meggs to think about what might happen should one of his staff or customers get hurt and so he took out a Spooksafe Insurance policy, distributed by UK-based specialist insurer, Ultraviolet.

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