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title: "What Insurance Covers Business Shutdowns?"
description: "Business-interruption coverage may replace defined income and expenses after covered property damage shuts down operations."
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# What Insurance Covers Business Shutdowns?

Business-interruption coverage may replace defined income and expenses after covered property damage shuts down operations.

A shutdown alone, including one caused by a nonphysical event, may not meet the trigger.

Check covered-damage requirements, waiting periods, restoration periods, expense definitions, and sublimits. Ask how the policy treats a partial shutdown or damage at a supplier’s location.

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## Related Coverage

- [Commercial property](https://spot.insure/coverage/commercial-property)

## Sources

1. [Business Interruption Insurance/Businessowner’s Policies (BOP)](https://content.naic.org/cipr-topics/business-interruptionbusinessowners-policies-bop). National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Business Interruption; Contingent business interruption; Commercial Property. Accessed 2026-09-25.
2. [Protecting your business against contingent business interruption and supply chain disruption](https://www.iii.org/article/protecting-your-business-against-contingent-business-interruption-and-supply-chain-disruption). Insurance Information Institute; Limits of contingent business interruption insurance; Broader supply chain coverage. Accessed 2026-09-25.

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