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Newcastle Herald
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Hunter festival boss sues insurer over Black Summer cancellation

More than 5000 people were due to attend Subsonic in 2019 before it was called off due to the raging bushfires.

Insurer Lloyd's has been sued for around $870,000 after claiming a Hunter music festival should not have been axed despite the Black Summer bushfires raging kilometres away.

The cancellation of the Subsonic festival in December 2019 was necessary because of the threat that the unprecedented fires caused, organiser Scott Commens claimed in a Federal Court lawsuit filed on Monday.

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