French Insurance

Clements International. International insurance for expats. Based in Washington D.C. 
Financial Expat. English Chartered Institute of Insurance qualified expatriate based in Troyes helps with French insurance and finance for expats.

Stuart Collins. Motor policies for UK registered cars, left or right hand drive. Extended foreign use across the EU and a few more countries without time limit.

Note that some of the major banks also propose insurances. Even though they propose insurances to customers without accounts in their banks, they use the insurances as bargaining chips. Some banks are simply resellers of French insurance companies' products, while others propose their own insurances. Bank employees may well be less knowledgeable about insurance products than insurance companies and agents.

French Insurance Agents speaking English and/or Danish

Assur.net. Comparison between several French insurance companies.
AssureMieux. Compare site.
Assurland. Comparison between several companies. NOTE: it is preferrable to give them a one-off e-mail address, not your real e-mail address, as they keep spamming you for years once you have made a comparison, whether or not you tick to accept their 'newsletter'.
Bernard Tapie. Cheap insurance in France.
KelAssur. Compare site.
HyperAssur. Comparison between several French insurance companies.
KelAssur. Compare site.
LeLynx. Compare site.
Empruntis. Problems experienced: premium rate phone number; often engaged/busy, inefficient administration, late handling of files and delivery of insurance papers too late. My suggestion: Use them to compare quotes but don't deal directly through Empruntis.
Empruntis' list of insurance companies. Describes the particularities of insurance companies in France one by one.
A site called jechange.fr claims to be a comparison site, but they are in reality a broker earning commission on the services sold.

French Insurance Companies

AGF.
Alptis. Health, accident, life etc.
Aviva. 
Axa. One of the large insurance companies in France.
Azur. 
Direct Assurance. Insurance through phone or Internet. Low cost and low level of cover. Axa group. Note that this company refuse to recognise car insurance bonus from other countries, and they also refuse to insure anyone not speaking French. If you want to give them a try, be sure to get someone who speaks French to call them in your place.
Eurofil. Insurance through phone or Internet. Note that this company refuse to insure anyone not speaking French. If you want to give them a try, be sure to get someone who speaks French to call them in your place.
Euroleader. Used to be cheap but can now be more expensive than a mainstream company like AXA. Unfriendly and obstructive when you want to cancel an insurance. Slow and inefficient handling of claims.
Generali France. Italian company.
GMF. 
Groupama. 
La Mondiale. Health, accident, life etc.
Maaf. One of the large insurance companies. They provides quotes online and call you back but will only insure if you go to one of their agencies; not by phone or Internet.
Macif. One of the large insurance companies.
Maif. One of the large mutual insurance companies.
Matmut. One of the large insurance companies. Clients with non-French noclaims bonus are only considered if they go to one of their agencies.
MMA. One of the large mutual insurance companies. Bought Winterthur France.
MFA. Mutual insurance company.
SOS Malus. They take on the risks considered 'bad' by other insurers. Provided by Cabinet JP Labalette, Paris.

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