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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Common provisions

Article L1527-2

Financial penalties incurred pursuant to this Code shall be imposed in local currency, taking into account the equivalent in that currency of the euro.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L121-2

The insurer is liable for loss or damage caused by persons for whom the insured is civilly liable under article 1242 of the Civil Code, regardless of the nature and seriousness of the fault of those p…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Fire insurance.

Article L122-2

The insurer shall only be liable for material damage resulting directly from the fire or the outbreak of fire, unless otherwise agreed.If the expert assessment is not completed within three months of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Jurisdiction and prescription.

Article L114-2

The limitation period is interrupted by one of the ordinary causes of interruption of the limitation period and by the appointment of experts following a claim. The interruption of prescription of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Legal expenses insurance.

Article L127-2

Legal expenses insurance is the subject of a separate contract from that drawn up for the other branches or of a separate section of a single policy indicating the contents of the legal expenses insur…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Liability insurance.

Article L124-2

The insurer may stipulate that no acknowledgement of liability or settlement made outside the insurer may be set up against it. The admission of the materiality of a fact cannot be equated with an adm…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Retirement savings plans giving rise to membership of a group insurance contract

Article L142-2

The rates charged for French retirement savings plans and sub-accounts of the pan-European individual retirement savings product are based on mortality and technical interest rate parameters defined i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder participation in technical and financial profits

Article L132-29

Life insurance or capitalisation companies and supplementary occupational pension funds allow policyholders to share in the technical and financial profits they make, in accordance with the conditions…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions relating to group insurance.

Article L141-2

Any sums owed by the member to the policyholder under the insurance contract must be deducted separately from any sums owed by the member to the policyholder under any other contract.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-2

Insurance in the event of death taken out by a third party on the life of the insured is null and void if the insured has not given his or her consent in writing, specifying the capital or annuity ini…

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