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INSURANCE LAW

Business interruption: towards the multiplication of insured companies. Jérôme Goy’s tribune

Insurers won’t talk about it, but companies should be aware that there is only one month left before the statute of limitation expires for insurance claims related to business interruption.

INSURANCE LAW

Business interruption: insurers under pressure!

A few weeks before the expiration of the two-year statute of limitation on business interruption coverage, this sensitive issue is coming back into the legal arena. The consequences for the insurers concerned could be massive.

INSURANCE LAW

Originally from the United Kingdom, MGAs, or managing general agents, are increasingly present in the French insurance market, particularly in the world of insurtech, where some companies, such as Assurly, Luko and Zego, are using this status. 

INSURANCE LAW

Insurance contract renewals from January 1, 2022: limitations are already underway

Since the first semester of 2019, the insurance market started an upward trend in Europe: prices have increased, and covers have been more limited. In this context, insurance companies have been reviewing their contracts and programs to the detriment of policyholders, who experienced broader limitations and poorer covers since 2020. We published a synthetic study on this subject in May 2020; here is an update.

INSURANCE LAW

“Pandemic insurance: the embalmer, the abbot and the gravedigger”. A column from Jérôme Goy.

Why should we not believe the fable that is told to us, or how the insurance of companies against the pandemic can only be a mutualised and generalised guarantee, and not an additional tax loophole ?

INSURANCE LAW

The termination of an insurance contract: a fresh air within formalism

The insurance market has been growing steadily, as you know, for more than two years now. The trend will continue to intensify at the end of 2021 for the January 1st contract renewal season.
In order not to suffer from such important increases, which are often presented as inevitable, insured companies wishing to do so, must prepare before the summer the competition from their intermediaries (brokers and managers), before (or sometimes at the same time) that of insurers.

INSURANCE LAW

The MGA, a trendy (but not so new) beast Why?

On February 3rd, 2021, the underwriting agency Centrix announced its decision to join the Managing General Agents Association (MGAA) – the only association in the UK that represents and promotes the Managing General Agents (MGA) industry and its members. “A natural choice,” according to the newly created MGA (2019) fancying to expand its presence in the London market.

INSURANCE LAW

Paris fantasizes the return of captive insurance companies

Le ministère de l’Economie aimerait que les grands groupes qui choisissent de s’assurer eux-mêmes – en
créant une captive d’assurance – le fassent en France plutôt qu’au Luxembourg

INSURANCE LAW

Why the consequences of a pandemic are not uninsurable (and should be insured)

Article published in Les Echos by Julien Aubert, Jérôme Goy and Olivier Marleix