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The CESAM

OUR HISTORY

16th century: pooling of resources and information between insurers, shipowners and mariners.

1668: creation in Paris of the Chambre d’assurance et de grosse aventure de France (1681: Colbert ordinances).

1836: insurers reorganise and establish Réunion des Assureurs Maritimes de Paris under the banner Comité des Assureurs Maritimes de Paris.

1942: the Paris Comité becomes Comité central des Assureurs Maritimes de France.

1988: creation of Comité d’Etudes et de Services des Assureurs Maritimes et Transports (CESAM). It becomes an EIG (Economic Interest Group), bringing together the main insurance companies with a marine division.

CESAM’s ultimate goal is to bring together its entire ecosystem by becoming the Marine and Aviation Insurance House.

OUR MISSION

CESAM provides its members with services to facilitate or grow their business and improve or increase their earnings.

Operational general interest services

Average Agents and Surveyors network.
Training.
Country War Risks rating applicable to the cargo business.
Organisation of Le Rendez-Vous ParisMAT.
Advice for major casualties’ management.

Administrative and financial services

Management of the OPTIFLUX® system for transmitting information from lead insurers: processing of all technical and financial flows for coinsurance or 100% policies.

Premium collection, claims payment as well as their repartition and, more generally, financial transactions of all kinds on members’ behalf.
Implementation of financial guarantees: to benefit from this service, the member must first deposit the amount of the guarantee in CESAM’s account.

OUR ORGANISATION

Board of directors

See list of members

Member Companies

Members are Insurance or reinsurance companies or any subsidiary of which they directly or indirectly own more than 50%, that are authorised in France or another European Union member state to operate in the EU Marine Insurance industry, and which operate on the French market through agencies, branches or under the freedom to provide services.
Any economic interest group (EIG) carrying out the activity of an insurance intermediary, provided that one or more of its members holding a majority of the voting rights at its ordinary general meeting is also insurance or reinsurance company that is a CESAM member in accordance with the conditions indicated above.
Insurance or reinsurance companies that are members of the Federation of African Insurance Companies (FANAF) may also be admitted as members of the Group.

See the list of current members

Become a CESAM member