Central Bank told finance officials that insurers may have had to deduct value of Covid state supports

Reinsurance cover could be void if controversial costs had not been deducted, according to documents issued to the government by the regulator last year

Sean Fleming, Minister of State: among ministers to put pressure on insurers over the practice of stripping the value of state supports from payouts to businesses whose pandemic-related losses were covered by their insurance contracts. Picture: Fergal Phillips