All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 10 2023 // More than 100 firefighters worked against a ticking clock to extinguish flames deep within debris to save up to 10 people possibly buried after a building exploded and collapsed early Sunday in the French port city of...
Apr 3 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Chubb, the MGA Pen Underwriting and loss adjuster McLarens.A summary of these new hires follows here. Chubb Names Chasseguet as Country President for...
Feb 27 2023 // Environmental and human rights activist groups said on Monday they had sued BNP Paribas, the eurozone’s biggest bank, for providing financial services to companies they allege contribute to the deforestation of the...
Jan 30 2023 // Americans have popularized “hustle culture,” but it’s French executives who binge work the most, according to a new survey.Nearly four in ten French business leaders admit to working intense, long hours...
Jan 18 2023 // POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and were sending the aircraft’s data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what...
Jan 12 2023 // French broker Verlingue, a subsidiary of Adelaïde Group and specialist in corporate protection, is continuing its external growth strategy with two new acquisitions that will consolidate its presence in the Grand Est...
Jan 9 2023 // French drugmaker Servier on Monday launched its appeal against manslaughter and deception convictions handed down by a Paris court in 2021 in connection with weight-loss pill Mediator.At least 500 people died of heart...
Jan 9 2023 // Some environmental groups have taken legal action against French bottled water and dairy group Danone over its plastic use, accusing it on Monday of failing to sufficiently account for all the plastic used along its...
Jan 6 2023 // France experienced its hottest and second-driest year on record in 2022, putting pressure on the government to step up its fight against climate change that’s straining everything from energy to...
Jan 3 2023 // Businesses in Quebec are looking at all the usual hurdles as they plan for next year: Inflation, supply chains, employee turnover. And then there’s the language police.It’s too soon to know how the Office...
Nov 28 2022 // French insurance broker April Group said private equity firm KKR & Co. has become its new majority shareholder, according to a statement posted on its website.The statement, which confirmed a Bloomberg News report,...
Nov 2 2022 // French defense and technology group Thales said on Tuesday the hacker group LockBit 3.0 claimed to have stolen some of its data and was threatening to publish it. Thales said the extortion and ransomware group had...
Oct 25 2022 // Tornado-like storms that tore through northern France sheared off part of a church roof, felled trees and power lines and left scores of people without a safe place to live, authorities said Monday.One person suffered...
Oct 24 2022 // Credit Suisse agreed to pay France 238 million euros ($234 million) to settle a tax fraud and money laundering case on Monday, putting another legal headache behind it as it prepares a strategic overhaul.The agreement...
Oct 24 2022 // Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Re Group Ltd., announced its further expansion into the European market with the opening of two new branches in Paris, France and Düsseldorf, Germany. Plans for a third...
Oct 11 2022 // A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice 13 years after an A330 jetliner plowed into the Atlantic, killing all on...
Oct 10 2022 // PARIS (AP) – Nicolas Touillou had just proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Nelson Marinho Jr. was heading off on a new oil exploration job. Eric Lamy was about to celebrate his 38th birthday.They were among 228 people...
Oct 5 2022 // Howden, the London-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired Seasecure Group, the last remaining independent marine broker in France.Seasecure Group is one of France’s largest marine and cargo insurance...
Aug 31 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at TigerRisk, Gallagher Re and BMS Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. TigerRisk Hires Aon’s Rosenberg for ILS TeamTigerRisk Partners LLC, the...
Aug 11 2022 // Wildfires tore through the Gironde region of southwestern France on Wednesday, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of 10,000 residents, some of whom had clambered onto rooftops as the flames got...