The Paris Commercial Court on Thursday ordered the insurer Axa to compensate five restaurateurs for their operating losses due to containment due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
The total amount is 240,000 euros.
The group has already announced that it will appeal.
Several dozen other court decisions are expected, especially in Marseille and Bordeaux.
The Paris commercial court on Thursday ordered the insurer Axa to compensate five restaurateurs for their operating losses due to containment due to the Covid-19 epidemic, a decision the group intends to appeal.
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240,000 to pay
In this judgment, the Paris Commercial Court considers that "the conditions required by Axa" to cover the operating losses of these restaurateurs "are met".
As a result, he ordered Axa to pay a total of 240,000 euros to these five restaurateurs as a down payment for their operating losses that occurred between March and May.
An expert will have to define more precisely the extent of these losses.
In detail, this decision benefits three Parisian restaurateurs and two others located respectively in Puylaroque (Tarn-et-Garonne) and Bastia.
Axa will appeal
"The position of the Commercial Court of Paris, contrary to those of the courts of Toulouse and Bourg-en-Bresse, reinforces the extreme confusion on the issue of operating losses", reacted Éric Lemaire, spokesperson for Axa France, in a written reaction sent to AFP.
"In this very difficult economic context, we deplore this confusion. (...) We are therefore appealing the decisions rendered today and we hope that greater clarity will be provided as soon as possible by the courts and the courts of appeal ", added Éric Lemaire.
A judgment that goes against that of the Toulouse commercial court
This judgment goes against that of the Toulouse commercial court which, on August 18, in a similar case, had rejected the starred chef Michel Sarran, restaurateur in the city of Rose and member of the jury of the show Top Chef on M6.
In Bourg-en-Bresse, the commercial court also dismissed at the end of August another restaurateur, installed in Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Ain), in a similar case.
Several dozen other decisions are expected
At the same time, the Tarascon commercial court (Bouche-du-Rhône), on the other hand, ordered Axa to compensate a restaurateur in the Alpilles for his operating losses for the same type of contract.
Several dozen other court decisions are expected, especially in Marseille and Bordeaux.