French insurance companies have received 120,000 claims for damages after Hurricane Ciaran, Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France Bruno Le Maire said on the BFMTV channel, Report informs referring to TASS.
“Some 120,000 applications for damages have been submitted to various insurance companies,” he noted, adding that an increase in the number of such requests should be expected in the near future.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron promised that the restoration of the country's departments affected by the hurricane would be accelerated. He noted that the regions will be given the status of natural disaster zones, which will make it possible to quickly pay compensation to victims.