Article L426-1 of the French Insurance Code
I.-A guarantee fund for damage resulting from preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic acts performed by self-employed healthcare professionals and mentioned in article L. 1142-1 of the Public Health Code, when such damage involves their professional civil liability, is responsible for paying, without the possibility of recourse against the healthcare professionals concerned, the portion of the amount exceeding the minimum ceiling set by the decree mentioned in the third paragraph of article…