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French insurance market faces innovation challenge

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The French insurance market is complex due to its legal and competition structure, as well as the ways and customs of the French themselves. However, as Jean-Pierre Menanteau explains, if insurers take customer service and innovation seriously they can make serious strides forward.

In a complex environment, French insurers only have one solution available to them if they want to retain their clients and that is to innovate.

With €200bn of premiums in 2009 (77% in life, 23% in

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