Wow, I just had to post this! I’m still in a shock and can’t really understand what happened. Yesterday morning I woke up and I felt this is going to be a good day. I went to register our car that I bought from Germany few weeks back. I had a help from my Salomon colleague to sort out the papers and making sure that I have everything I need to register the car. All went great and I got an temporary document that will be valid for 1 month so I will be able to drive the car.

Now here is the deal, like in every country you need to have an insurance at least a basic that covers the damage to the other vehicle if an accident happens. As I already have an house insurance in this company called Matmut, I thought why no consolidate everything to one company it might even bring some cost savings eventually. Here is when it started to go wrong, my colleague called the company on my behalf (as I don’t speak French just yet) and started to explain what I needed for the car and a little bit of the history of my insurances in Finland. The person at Matmut collected the details of my previous cars and insurances and promised to call back after validating with the manager. Few minutes later we got the phone call and they dropped the bomb! They are not going to give me the insurance as I don’t speak any French? SERIOUSLY? is that a reason not to give a person an insurance? I call that racist and I can’t believe this is happening in european union. Also they were worried about my previous cars not matching our new cars horse powers? What the heck has that to do with the insurance? I’ve owned 3 cars previously from which 1 with my girlfriend and we never crashed a car before and to be honest Finland’s driving license education system is probably the best in the world not to mention the conditions we are coming from 4 seasons anyone? I’m in a shock and I can’t believe this is really happening.

So my conclusion, if you are living in France or planning to move here you should ether change your insurance immediately away from Matmut or in case of planning to move here DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER taking Matmut as your insurance company.

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