French Insurance Code

If a third party becomes the holder of the opposed contract, the company must notify the opposing party within one month by registered letter or electronic registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt; it must also notify, in the same way, the original subscriber of the contract, if he or she is not the opposing party. This notice must include the obligation to bring an action for recovery within one month,…

Within one month of receipt of the letter provided for in article R. 160-4, the opposing party must bring his action before the competent court and notify the company, by electronic registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt, of the lodging of this application, specifying the date of the summons and the name of the bailiff who issued it. If the opposing party fails to lodge and notify his action within…

Where two years have elapsed from the date of the objection and no third party holder has come forward, the objector may, on production of a simple letter from the company certifying that the objection has not been contradicted, apply to the president of the judicial court, in the case of a capitalisation or savings certificate, for authorisation to have a duplicate of the contract issued to him at his…