SA's largest short-term insurer, Santam has extended the pool of commercial clients that can claim for contingent business interruption as a result contagious and infectious diseases to include all clients with that type of cover, it said on Monday.

“Santam made the decision to include the claims from all commercial policies with (contingent business interruption) extensions after further analysis and consideration of recent court judgments,” Santam said via Sens. SENS...