Europ Assistance is a French company created in 1963. The company created the concept of world-wide medical assistance. The inventor of real-time assistance over 50 years ago, Europ Assistance is now a global provider of assistance services to people in the fields of health, home and family life, automotive and travel. The group invented Care services to meet new needs arising from globalisation, growing urbanisation, longer life expectancies and the transformation of family models. Europ Assistance watches over more than 300 million clients worldwide thanks to its 8,200 employees, 44 companies and branches in 33 countries and its network of 425,000 partners active in the field.