All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2009 // Air France will compensate the families of the victims of a June 1 crash in which 228 people died, the company’s chief executive said on Friday.Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic...
Jun 18 2009 // French investigators said Wednesday more than 400 pieces of Flight 447 have been recovered in a painstaking search in the Atlantic but no conclusions have yet been reached in the probe.“If we had concluded or...
Jun 15 2009 // The tragic disappearance of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic early on June 1 remains a mystery. The plane’s 216 passengers and 12 crew members perished as all contact was lost with the Airbus 330-200 in the...
Jun 10 2009 // Air France has said all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets will be equipped immediately with new speed sensors after last week’s disaster over the Atlantic, a pilots’ union said Tuesday.The pitot tubes...
Jun 8 2009 // Searchers found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet Sunday and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in the worst air disaster since 2001.Nearly a week after the...
Jun 5 2009 // The last manual message from the pilot of Air France Flight 447 indicated the plane was headed into a storm.Ten minutes later a flurry of automated messages began: The autopilot had disengaged; a key computer system had...
Jun 3 2009 // French officials said on Wednesday they might never discover why an Air France aircraft crashed into the Atlantic, killing 228 people, and that they might not even find the plane’s black boxes on the ocean...
Jun 2 2009 // Search planes scoured the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a severe storm with 228 people on board.The Airbus A330 went missing on a...
Jun 1 2009 // An Air France plane with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Brazil to Paris on Monday after hitting strong turbulence and French officials said they feared a disaster.The Brazilian air...
May 26 2009 // France and Germany suggested on Monday that rich nations should collectively guarantee deep cuts in greenhouse gases by 2020 while giving flexibility to laggards such as the United States to catch up later.France said the...
Apr 13 2009 // Navy commandos stormed a French sailboat held by pirates off the Somali coast in an assault triggered by threats that the passengers would be executed.But one hostage was killed in the operation, demonstrating the risks of...
Apr 3 2009 // World leaders clinched a $1.1 trillion deal on Thursday to combat the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and said financial rules would be tightened to stop it happening again.U.S. President Barack Obama...
Mar 12 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “aa” of Germany’s Allianz Societas Europaea (Allianz SE) and its main...
Feb 20 2009 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its insured loss estimates of property losses in France from winter storm Klaus to between 500 million and 1 billion Euros.These losses represent damage to buildings...
Feb 10 2009 // A storm swept across northern France on Tuesday, cutting off more than 600,000 homes from the power grid, while high winds and gales hit Britain and Switzerland.It was the second major storm to hit France in less than...
Jan 28 2009 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has given its preliminary estimates of insured losses in France from winter storm Klaus of between €350 million and €700 million ($465 to $930 million).AIR noted...
Jan 27 2009 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has begun analyzing the damages wrought by winter storm Klaus, which, AIR notes, “swept out of the Atlantic and across southern France and northern Spain Saturday, tearing...
Jan 26 2009 // The most violent cyclonic storm since 1999 roared across southwest France and Northern Spain over the weekend, causing the deaths of 15 people and inflicting heavy damages on infrastructure.Four children aged from nine to...
Dec 3 2008 // The New York State Insurance Department has signed an agreement with its counterpart in France that calls for increased cooperation and consultation between the two regulatory bodies.The agreement is similar to agreements...
Nov 30 2008 // In today’s borderless global economy, claims can arise in just about any part of the world where a company does business. Even small and midsize companies with no physical presence outside the United States can find...