The Paris Commercial Court on Friday ordered the insurer Axa to compensate a Parisian restaurateur up to two months of loss of its turnover due to the confinement, a first closely watched by the insurance sectors and catering, we learned from his lawyer.
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Stéphane Manigold, who owns four restaurants in Paris, had taken legal action to obtain that Axa compensate his operating losses. " It is a collective victory ," he reacted. Cafes and restaurants were forced to close at midnight on March 14 as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.