The bad weather which hit the west of France in particular between May 20 and 23 will cost 323 million euros, France Insurers estimates on Wednesday, when those of the Pentecost weekend should cost at least double, according to the insurer Covéa.
The estimate revealed by the professional federation of insurers reflects 93,000 claims, but does not include the damage caused by a second wave of stormy events which crossed France between June 3 and 5, during the Pentecost weekend. .
This last episode could cost around 650,850 million euros, explains AFP to the French mutual insurer Cova (MAAF, MMA, GMF), which expects 240,000 claims.
Figures that are valid for the entire IARD market (Fire, Accidents and Miscellaneous Risks) hexagonal, all insurers combined, says the company.
This unusual meteorological phenomenon caused 15 injuries, including two serious ones, and one person died from Rouen, according to the report drawn up before the press on Sunday morning by the Minister of the Interior, Grald Darmanin.
The federation of insurers, on the other hand, is refraining from any estimate for the moment, judging that it was still too early to estimate the number and cost of claims between June 3 and 5.
Insurers are fully mobilized alongside their policyholders to speed up compensation procedures and respond as quickly as possible to their needs, she also specifies in her press release.
France Assureurs, however, gives details of the bad weather in May: the two main cost items being automobile damage, for 131 million euros, as well as damage to homes, for 127 million.
For example, around 340 homes in Indre were damaged during the night of May 22 to 23 by violent storms accompanied by hailstorms which also broke car windows, according to the prefecture.
A total of 350 firefighters had been mobilized in the department for some 500 interventions and 1,500 distress calls, according to the departmental council.