Insurance Confidence Center
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Business Interruption Runway

If you could not trade tomorrow, how many months would your policy actually fund? Payroll does not pause.

Calibrate

Drag to set each value — estimates are fine.

On your declarations page, sometimes as "business income". Many business owner policies instead provide business income on an actual-loss-sustained basis for 12 months with no dollar limit — leave this at zero if yours does, or if no limit is stated, and the runway is read from the period rather than a figure.

The staff you would not want to lose while closed.

Rent, loan payments, utilities, insurance, subscriptions — what continues whether you trade or not.

Business interruption covers lost profit as well as continuing costs.

Rebuilding, refitting, replacing equipment, and winning customers back.

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Insurance Confidence Center

A number is a starting point. Walking through what it means for your actual policy is the part that changes anything.

What this means for you

Get a plain-English summary of your reading.

Levers that move this

  • Business interruption limit
  • Monthly payroll you would keep paying
  • Other monthly fixed costs
  • Monthly net profit you would lose
  • Months to reopen after a serious loss

Drag these dials above to see the effect instantly.

Get the full write-up

The assumptions behind the figure, the method, and the disclosures that go with it.

How this is calculated — the full method, sources and limits →