All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 23 2005 // Devastating fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria and Romania; drought in much of France – the list of extreme weather conditions continues to grow in Europe.No contrast is more vivid than...
Aug 17 2005 // As the deadly series of plane crashes continued – 4 since Aug. 2 – rescue workers continued to comb the wreckage of the West Caribbean MD-82 that went down yesterday in Venezuela, near the Colombian border. All...
Jul 4 2005 // EU Leaders Fiddle While Europe Burns: The crisis in the European Union, provoked when French and Dutch voters rejected the EU Constitution, is being largely ignored by Europe’s leaders. Instead of a bit of...
Jun 17 2005 // One would have thought that the crisis in the European Union, provoked when French and Dutch voters rejected the proposed EU Constitution, might have caused a bit of soul-searching and reassessment on the part of...
May 30 2005 // Seventy percent of the eligible voters in France expressed their opinion on Sunday, May 29 – a turnout not seen in any recent election. Fifty-five percent of them voted a resounding ‘NO’ to the proposed...
Apr 18 2005 // GAO Study Explores Examples of How Public-Private Insurance Partnerships OperateA new U.S. government report indicates that the private U.S. insurance industry would be placed under enormous strain without government...
Apr 7 2005 // Through two different translators, French mogul Francois Pinault sought to make one point universally clear to the federal jury hearing the civil suit over failed insurer Executive Life: He did nothing wrong.Testifying in...
Mar 31 2005 // A new U.S. government report indicates that the private U.S. insurance industry would be placed under enormous strain without government intervention if there were a major terrorist or catastrophic event or series of...
Mar 18 2005 // Aeroports de Paris (ADP), the authority that owns and operates both the Charles de Gaulle airport and Orly airport in the French capital, has determined that the entire roof structure of Terminal 2E must be torn down and...
Feb 16 2005 // Both structural and design faults caused a large section of the newly constructed Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport to collapse last May, killing 4 people and injuring 3.An investigative commission...
Jan 21 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A+” (Superior) and assigned an issuer credit rating of “aa-” to Italy’s largest insurer Assicurazioni Generali...
Jan 17 2005 // The U.K., France and other European countries whose citizens lost their lives, or are still missing, in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunamis, are considering ways to amend their laws governing when a missing person...
Nov 18 2004 // GE Insurance Solutions has announced the addition of expertise to its Property Insurance & Services, Global Asset Protection business unit.Field Operations Leader Tim Heinze said the unit has had a “great...
Oct 26 2004 // A French administrative court under the jurisdiction of the national health service has ordered the owners of an abandoned asbestos mine in Corsica to pay compensation to 13 former miners and their families as a result of...
Aug 16 2004 // AGF, the French subsidiary of Germany’s Allianz Group, announced record first half net income of 532 million euros ($660 million), and annualized return on equity of 16.3 percent.“The AGF Group is in line with...
Aug 12 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on non-life French insurer Aviva Assurances S.A. to ‘AA-‘ from...
Jun 28 2004 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it would offer 180 million euros ($218 million) worth of 4.125 percent unsecured convertible bonds within the French market.SCOR’s bulletin stressed that no offering of the...
Jun 10 2004 // French reinsurer SCOR announced that the following persons have been named to the SCOR VIE Executive Committee at a meeting of its Board of Directors, chaired by CEO Denis Kessler:— Romain Durand, Chief Executive...
Jun 1 2004 // A portion of the newly constructed Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport collapsed on Sunday May 23, killing four people, and sending shock waves throughout France. Over a week later the cause of the...
May 24 2004 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has upgraded the financial strength rating to “A+” (Superior) from “A” (Excellent) of France’s Caisse Centrale de Reassurance (CCR), and has revised its outlook...