How is it that the person who drove the metro in which the attack in Maelbeek took place has no open compensation file with the insurance? The situation is all the more surprising since in Belgium, it is the insurance companies that are on the front line to compensate the victims of March 22.
“For me, the insurance companies are in the best position to cover the compensation for the victims of March 22.“, explains Hein Lannoy, Managing Director of Assuralia. “We have the means to intervene quickly. Imagine an attack with very many dead and very many injured. Does the State have the means to take charge of this? I don’t think so. That’s the reason for which we advised the political world to maintain an insurance regime with regard to the compensation of damage.
As for the State, it only intervenes in a second step, by providing legal aid to those who do not have it, as well as a disability pension to those present at the scene of the attacks and who have it. suffered harm.
If an attack occurs on the Grand-Place, many people would not be insured.
Insurance in the front line, the State in a subsidiary role, this is what is reinforced by the latest bill on the subject. A text co-written by the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Pensions and the Prime Minister, and which was recently approved by the Council of Ministers but which is strongly criticized by the deputy Georges Dallemand: “If by misfortune, an attack occurs on the Grand-Place, in this case there is no insurance that covers this place in the event of a terrorist attack. This means that many people would not be insured and would therefore not have no effective system of compensation, except once once more following a certain number of years, small, modest, through a subsidiary system which in reality today does not concern them.”
