Pop star unhappy that insurers did not pay for concert cancelled over terrorism threat
Lady Gaga’s management company and tour promoters are suing three Lloyd’s syndicates for not paying out for a cancelled concert, according to reports.
Gaga had been due to play in Jakarta in Indonesia on 3 June last year and had sold more than 50,000 tickets, reports the Guardian.
But religious hardliners were unhappy with her ‘vulgar’ ways. Indonesian police were reportedly unable to guarantee her safety and she pulled out.
Her tour partners, Live Nation LG Tours and Mermaid Touring, say they paid “substantial premiums” to cover the singer’s worldwide shows. The lawsuit has been filed in California.
According to the policy, Gaga was protected from losses “should any insured performance(s) or event(s) specified herein be necessarily cancelled, abandoned, rescheduled, interrupted or relocated, in whole or in part … [as] the sole and direct result of terrorism and/or sabotage or threat thereof”.
But Lloyd’s refused to pay out, citing “language and purported conditions that are not contained in the [policies]”. This was “despicable conduct”, the plaintiffs claim, “with the intent to vex, injure or annoy”.
They are seeking a jury trial, with damages of at least $150,000 (£99,000).
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