City and Agglomeration of Lons-le-Saunier at Risk of Losing Property Damage Insurance: Urgent Situation for 2024

Par Joffrey Fodimbi
Published on Dec 19, 23 at 5:51 p.m. See my news Follow Voix du Jura

It is a Kafkaesque situation that the City and Agglomeration of Lons-le-Saunier must face. From January 2024, the two local institutions could well find themselves without property damage insurance.

Insurance, certainly optional, but which makes it possible to cover real estate assets, street furniture or even public lighting and which covers theft, fire, damage caused by storm or snow, water damage, electrical damage, glass breakage and natural disasters.

In short, if a building were to catch fire for example, as was the case at the time for Juraparc or the theater, the City or Agglomeration would have to pay out of their own pocket to cover the repair costs.

A national situation

A situation which results from the termination on the part of the insurance companies covering the two local institutions; situation that several municipalities and towns across the country are currently experiencing, insurance companies having become more reluctant to cover them in the face of increasingly regular natural disasters, but also because of the damage to public buildings which seems to have increased in recent times years.

Faced with these difficulties, the mayor of Vesoul (Haute-Saône), Alain Chrétien, and Jean-Yves Dagès, former president of Groupama, were appointed by the government to lead a mission on the insurability of communities. Mission which should deliver its conclusions in April 2024, and which therefore does not prevent finding a solution locally by December 31, 2023.

450% increase

An issue raised during the last community council on Thursday, December 14, 2023, by the president of the Espace Communautaire Lons Agglomération (ECLA) Claude Borcard, who explained that he had to face numerous refusals from insurers, the few who responded in the affirmative agreed to ensure the agglomeration at the rate of €2 per m2, an increase of almost 450%, all for an area of ​​ECLA’s assets of 51,205 m2.

Wishing to avoid blowing up their insurance budget, the City and the Agglomeration only have a few days left to find an insurer willing to cover them at a reasonable rate; failing this, the two institutions will therefore be forced to self-insure.

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2023-12-19 23:03:36
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