All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2022 // French insurer AXA announced a new share buyback program as it posted a 3% rise in first-half net profit, driving up its stock price.AXA, Europe’s second-biggest insurer behind Germany’s Allianz, said it would...
Jul 29 2022 // Howden, the London-based international insurance broker, announced it had agreed to acquire C.R.F. Conseils (CRF), an independent broker that specializes in financial lines.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed....
Jul 19 2022 // Britain was forecast to see temperatures hit 40C (104F) for the first time on Tuesday after logging its warmest night on record, while wildfires raged across parched countryside in France, Spain and elsewhere.As a heatwave...
Jun 22 2022 // Carmaking partners Renault and Nissan face legal action in France from customers who have suffered problems with some engines made between 2012 and 2016.Christophe Lèguevaques, a lawyer for the MyLeo legal platform...
Jun 17 2022 // QBE Re Reports Departure of PostlewhiteQBE announced that Steve Postlewhite, managing director QBE Re, is leaving the company following a four-year tenure. QBE gave no reason for what it said was Postlewhite’s...
Jun 14 2022 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has introduced a proprietary directors & officers insurance policy in France.“Our new D&O liability policy provides companies and their management...
Jun 13 2022 // France’s financial sector is now the most popular destination in Europe for U.S. backers, helping the country narrow the gap with the UK for foreign direct investment in the industry.The country recorded a total of...
Jun 2 2022 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has further expanded its presence in Europe with an office in Lyon, France.“As we continue to grow steadily across Europe, the time is right to expand with...
May 16 2022 // PARIS – A French court has ordered Sanofi to pay more than 400,000 euros ($416,440) in damages to a family whose child suffered from a form of autism caused by its epilepsy drug Valproate, saying the drugmaker failed to...
May 3 2022 // Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown.Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no longer roam as freely or feel the sun on their beaks as some U.S. and European farmers...
Apr 28 2022 // Attacks on long-distance fiber-optic cables caused internet outages in several parts of France, carriers SFR and Free said on Wednesday.The cyber section of the Paris public Prosecutor’s office opened a criminal...
Apr 27 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the London-based broker Miller and the insurer HDI Global in France.A summary of these new hires follows here. Miller Appoints RKH’s Malin,...
Apr 20 2022 // Two former managers of Deliveroo were given suspended one-year prison sentences and fined 30,000 euros ($32,380) by a French court on Tuesday for abusing the freelance status of cycle riders working for the British...
Mar 29 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and Miller, along with the MGA Tamesis DUAL.A summary of these new hires follows here. WTW Promotes Richardson to...
Mar 29 2022 // Denmark’s Orsted said on Monday it had agreed to sell half of the Hornsea 2 project in Britain, which will become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, to a French consortium for 3 billion pounds ($3.94...
Mar 28 2022 // French insurer AXA said on Friday that it has stopped all new investments in Russian assets and would no longer underwrite reinsurance of the country’s insurance companies. It said it had stopped underwriting new...
Mar 21 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Zurich, HDI Global and Fusion.A summary of these new hires follows here. Zurich Names UK Chief Sustainability OfficerZurich Insurance Co. announced that...
Mar 7 2022 // A group of environmental organizations has filed a lawsuit in France against the country’s largest energy company TotalEnergies, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to fight climate change.The...
Feb 17 2022 // France’s CNP Assurances CNPP.PA will no longer finance new oil and gas projects or invest more money in companies planning to do so, joining the growing ranks of insurers taking a more pro-active approach to tackling...
Feb 16 2022 // Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines.Weather forecasters in the UK,...