All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 2 2015 // France’s BEA crash investigation agency said a specialist black box search team and equipment arrived on Friday at the search area for the Indonesia AirAsia flight which crashed on Sunday en route from Indonesia to...
Nov 11 2014 // On the 11th of November 1914 the 1st World War, or the ‘Great War,’ had already lasted more than three months, and predictions that it would be over by Christmas had largely evaporated. The failure of...
Oct 28 2014 // Consumer electronic and household device insurer Assurant Inc. has made a binding offer to acquire CWI Group, a mobile insurance brokerage in France, for approximately €56 million ($71 million).The acquisition by...
Oct 27 2014 // Alain A. Bellet, owner and president of Capstone Underwriters LLC, in Dallas, Texas, has been awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the government of France.The order of the...
Oct 16 2014 // Despite varying internal pressures, the German and French insurance markets have shown resilience in their respective ways, according to two separate reports issued by A.M. Best.While Germany’s economy is among the...
Oct 7 2014 // Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that...
Aug 29 2014 // When it comes to personal lines insurance there are really only two attachment points – acquiring the policy and making a claim. The first is fairly simple, although less so if you happen to be a young driver. It’s...
Jul 25 2014 // Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight over the West African state of Mali with 116 people on board, French officials said on Friday.Investigators at the scene of the crash had...
Jul 7 2014 // The Global Catastrophe Recap report for June from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting highlights the outbreak of severe thunderstorms that affected Western and Central Europe during the first half of the month, causing...
Jun 13 2014 // Lance Armstrong, stripped of seven Tour de France victories and banned from professional cycling in 2012, was questioned under oath for the first time since he admitted doping in an Oprah Winfrey interview last...
Jun 13 2014 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has analyzed the severe thunderstorms that pummeled western and central Europe, starting on Sunday, June 7. The storms packed “extremely strong and damaging winds, large hail,...
Apr 6 2014 // The Marquis de Sade’s scandalous and sexually graphic novel “120 Days of Sodom” has come back home.Written in prison in 1785 — just before the French Revolution — and described by the Marquis...
Apr 6 2014 // Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with the Malaysian jet’s disappearance armed with only minimal information on the fate of its 227...
Apr 1 2014 // The lack of structural measures in large economies including France and Italy present the biggest threat to growth in the euro area, Swiss Re Ltd.’s Chief Economist Kurt Karl said.The region’s economy will...
Mar 31 2014 // Swiss Re announced the appointment of Walter Eraud as General Director Swiss Re, France. He joined Swiss Re in July 2010 and currently works as Head of Client Management in Swiss Re’s Paris office. Eraud covers the...
Mar 14 2014 // The search for the missing Malaysian jet could speed development of new ways of locating wreckage, but such technology is unlikely to replace the traditional “black box” any time soon, France’s top crash...
Feb 3 2014 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced that its initial insured property loss estimate for windstorm Dirk, which affected the UK and France from...
Dec 3 2013 // France will allow private security forces to protect its shipping fleet against the threat of piracy, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview published on Tuesday.France is one of the main contributors to an...
Nov 22 2013 // A day before he was scheduled to give sworn testimony about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong reached a settlement on Nov. 20 with an insurance company that was seeking $3 million in performance...
Nov 7 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that insured losses from Windstorm Christian (known as St. Jude in the UK) will range between €1.5 billion €2.3 billion [$2 to $3 billion], with the majority of...