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Article R*421-74 of the French Insurance Code

Interested owners must enclose the following documents and information with their claim for compensation: 1. A certified copy of the deed of transfer by which they acquired the damaged property, accompanied by the reply given by the land registry to a request for information or an extract from the land register issued by the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the property is located, making it possible to establish the origin…

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Article R421-75 of the French Insurance Code

I. – When it receives a claim for compensation, the guarantee fund shall inform the party presumed responsible for the damage, the prefect, the court seised if legal action has been taken by the owner concerned and the persons designated in the declaration of honour referred to in the previous article. Within a maximum period of one month and at its own expense, it shall arrange for an expert appraisal…

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Article R421-76 of the French Insurance Code

Once the surveyor(s) have submitted a description of the damage and the other conclusions of the survey, the guarantee fund will pay, within a maximum of three months from the date of submission or, for the properties referred to in II of article R. 421-75 located within the perimeter of the mining disaster, from the date of publication of the order declaring the state of the mining disaster, up to…

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Article R421-77 of the French Insurance Code

For the buildings mentioned in II of article R. 421-75 located within the perimeter of the mining disaster, when it is not possible to restore the building on the same plot of land and that, as a result, in application of the provisions of II of article L. 421-17 of the Insurance Code, compensation enables the owner of the damaged building to recover ownership of a building of equivalent consistency…

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Article R421-78 of the French Insurance Code

The ceiling referred to in Article L. 421-16 is 100,000 euros. This amount is revised in line with changes in the construction cost index published by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques between the date of publication of decree no. 2005-1466 of 28 November 2005 and the date of publication of the order referred to in article R. 128-1.

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Article R422-1 of the French Insurance Code

The Fonds de garantie des victimes des actes de terrorisme et d’autres infractions (Guarantee Fund for Victims of Terrorism and Other Offences) set up by Article L. 422-1 is managed by a Board of Directors comprising : 1° A Chairman appointed by joint order of the Minister of the Economy and Finance and the Minister of Justice from among serving or honorary members of the Conseil d’Etat who have at…

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Article R422-3 of the French Insurance Code

The guarantee fund is subject to supervision by the Minister responsible for insurance, who appoints a Government Commissioner to supervise the overall management of the fund on his behalf. The Government Commissioner may attend all meetings of the Board of Directors or the committees set up by the Board. He may ask to see all the books and accounting documents. Decisions taken by the Board of Directors or by the…

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Article R422-5 of the French Insurance Code

I.- The income generated by the guarantee fund comprises the proceeds of the contribution provided for in article L. 422-1, compensation received from liable parties and recoveries made from compensation debtors, income from invested funds and profits on reimbursements and the realisation of assets, payments from the State budget, donations and legacies and any other resources that may be allocated to the guarantee fund. Expenditure includes compensation and costs paid…

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