Associations may be set up between mutual insurance companies providing the same type of insurance, the sole purpose of which is to reinsure in full the contracts underwritten by these mutual insurance companies and to give them their joint and several guarantee.
Such associations may only be formed between mutual insurance companies which undertake to cede all their risks to the association under a reinsurance treaty.
The association has a legal personality separate from that of the member companies.
Unions of mutual insurance companies are governed for their operation by the rules applicable to mutual insurance companies, subject to the adaptations provided for by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
The operations for which the associations act as joint and several guarantor are considered as direct insurance operations for the application of Book III of this Code.