It is, in a way, a new remake of David against Goliath. At the head of the sling against insurers, there is indeed Stéphane Jégo, the chef of L'ami Jean, rue Malar in the 7th arrondissement in Paris, a simple restaurateur from Brittany (precisely Lorient). As soon as his establishment closed on March 16, the entrepreneur turned to his insurer, Axa, not to mention him, to find out at what level the operating loss he was going to suffer was going to be compensated. "They replied that the loss of turnover was not taken into account in my contracts and that the pandemic risk was not covered," he says, reassembled like never before.
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With his partner, and for the 18 people (including 3 apprentices) he employs in his restaurant, he therefore decides to launch a petition (which this Wednesday brushed against 120,000 signatures) to call insurers to liability. "Even the banks are playing the game, so why not them, especially with the
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