If the wall comes down and has to be rebuilt, it will be extremely costly.
At the time the municipals intervened to send my wall to prosecutor there had been no insurance claim.
Suzan - we’re a pretty attentive lot on here. You really don’t need to repeat things 
Sandcastle had just written insurance company may be trying to wriggle out of it
They must do their due diligence to qualify and validate the claim.
Anything less would be inappropriate.
I trust you can see that.
Were you told this by the insurance company or by the driver or business owner? (EDIT I think you said the driver told you he had made a claim?)
I believe sinistres are usually notified to insurers online these days. Normally you would do this the same day. Other than you and your insurers, nobody would know whether you had notified them or not. My speculation was that on receiving notification the insurers contacted the service d’urbanisme to check the status of the wall, which may be a routine check for collisions with built structures, and it went on from there.
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I’m wondering much the same thing - has a claim been lodged my the lorry owner for damage to the lorry with *their* insurer.
I’m surprised that they have not contacted you though.
Are you in the UK at he moment - if anything has been sent to you by physical mail to your French address, would it have been forwarded?
He may have done without my knowledge. He asked me to supply a devis, which I did 3 weeks later, on receipt of that he said he would need to involve his insurance as I,000 euros. He then came back 10 days later saying waiting for my insurance, of course mine was lapsed. He then asked for my identity in order to make a claim. The muncipals sent wall to Prosecutor, shortly after devis was sent and he persisted asking for my insurance. I told him I needed to claim against him and if the delay continued I would need to start legal action.
I had a neighbour check my post box last week and nothing received.
Normally they post here if about money and email very swiftly if anything wrong with DD. Im sorry I see it as a set up.
That’s about the most ridiculous thing I have read on here for a while.
And that’s saying something…
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What the whole thread😃
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I’m still totally baffled by what that means. You say you have an email from the “urbanism department”, which presumably means at préfecturial level? But do you know it is for anything other than for form’s sake? What precisely does this email say?
As an example, we are off to the Gendarmerie tomorrow for a formal “dépôt de plainte” in theory to open proceedings against Orange. It won’t go anywhere. I know that, the police know that, and Orange know that. But until this official step has been completed nothing can happen.
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An accident caused by another party and witnessed by an off duty policeman still left me facing a bill for an un taxed, uninsured vehicle parked illegally as you said. The police then prosecuted the owner of the un taxed uninsured vehicle but still had to pay.
Hi David, yes I understand it all , it’s just odd that Mairie had all details of planning, drawings the lot and after 2.5 years im in the dock having to prove myself. I have the permit, you approved it and the drawings? its done isn’t it…?
The burden of proof is not on you as a plantif as you have the documentary evidence, it falls to the other side to prove otherwise and still the driver is at fault for hitting your wall, it being a stationary object the driver should have taken note.
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Depending on whether the contractor built according to the drawings,
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Suzan, you’re not in the dock as from what you have said as you are not actually being prosecuted. Simply, someone has questioned whether or not your wall conforms to the planning permissions. Please stick to facts…
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This makes far more sense to me…
Tear down the wall!!
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Perhaps they hired the lorry that hit it to transport the wall to the prosecutor.
I hooe the wall is put back in the correct place when the prosecutor has done with it.
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