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Urgent to put in disaster claims
People in 500 communes affected by floods and mudslides have until Monday to put in their ‘catastrophe’ claims
ONLY a few days are left if you have not made a ‘natural disaster’ insurance claim and you live in one of the towns or villages affected by floods and mudslides in recent months.
More than 500 communes are listed in two official announcements, which can be found on the links at the bottom of this page .
People affected now have just until Monday November 17 to put in their claims for catastrophe naturelle.
See this previous article for more on making these claims: Insurance: Natural disaster zone
Communes in 45 departments are concerned: Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Ariège, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d’Armor, Dordogne, Eure, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Isère, Jura, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Morbihan, Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Bas-Rhin, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Seine-Maritime, Yvelines, Somme, Tarn, Var, Vienne, Yonne and Essonne.
Photo:Still image from video by Edouard Calemard