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Section V: Effect on insurance contracts of the requisition of goods and services.

Article L160-6 of the French Insurance Code

The requisition of ownership of all or part of an item of movable property entails ipso jure, within the limits of the requisition, the cancellation or reduction of the insurance contracts relating to that property, with effect from the date of dispossession thereof. However, the insured has the right to obtain from the insurer that the cancellation be replaced by the simple suspension of the effects of the contract with…

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Article L160-7 of the French Insurance Code

The requisitioning of services, within the meaning of article 2 of order no. 59-63 of 6 January 1959 relating to the requisitioning of goods and services, as well as in the case of accommodation or cantonment, automatically entails the suspension of the effects of damage insurance contracts, within the limits of the requisition, and to the extent of the liability of the State as defined in article 20 of the…

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Article L160-8 of the French Insurance Code

In all cases other than those provided for in the third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 160-7, the insured must, within one month of becoming aware of the dispossession or the entry into force of the requisition of services, notify the insurer by registered letter or electronic registered mail, specifying the property to which the requisition relates. Failing notification within this period, the insurer is entitled, by way of…

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