All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 27 2023 // France’s moves to limit climate damage came late but were sufficient, a French court ruled on Friday, in a blow to attempts by environmental campaigners to impose a 1.1 billion euro ($1.21 billion) penalty on the...
Dec 12 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at DUAL France and Chubb’s Overseas General Insurance unit.A summary of these new hires follows here. DUAL Europe Taps Hiscox’s Hervé to Launch...
Nov 22 2023 // France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based power plants during the U.N. climate conference later this month, three sources familiar with the deliberations told Reuters in...
Oct 20 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Allianz Commercial and Sompo International.A summary of these new hires follows here. Allianz Commercial Taps AIG’s Valencia to Lead Portfolio...
Oct 3 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lockton Europe and Sompo InternationalA summary of these new hires follows here. Lockton Europe Taps WTW’s Rowley as Head of North American...
Sep 25 2023 // This year has been a challenging one for Phil Schneider, who hasn’t seen wildfire behavior like this in his 47-year firefighting career.Blazes raged through more than 2,000 acres of wildland in recent months in his...
Sep 15 2023 // Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France to settle a row with regulators that ordered the suspension of the phone’s sale due to breaches of radiation exposure limits.The...
Sep 14 2023 // Apple defended its iPhone 12 model on Wednesday after a French watchdog ordered a halt to its sales citing breaches of European Union radiation exposure limits.The French move raised the prospect of further bans in Europe....
Aug 3 2023 // Agence France-Presse (AFP) said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris against Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, accusing it of failing to discuss potential payment for the...
Jul 11 2023 // Some 11,300 claims for damages from riots in France had been filed as of July 7 for a total cost of €650 million ($716 million), the insurers federation said in a statement Tuesday.The number of claims has doubled...
Jul 5 2023 // President Emmanuel Macron will meet with more than 200 mayors to assess the riots that have rocked France as a massive police deployment led to a continued drop in the level of unrest overnight.French employers’...
Jul 5 2023 // French insurers have so far received around 5,900 claims worth a total of some €280 million ($305 million) resulting from damage caused during a week of riots following the police shooting of a teenager.This compares...
Jun 30 2023 // Mercenary hackers increasingly are targeting law firms in a bid to steal data that could tip the balance in legal cases, French and British authorities say, echoing a Reuters investigation that uncovered the phenomenon...
Jun 26 2023 // SCOR’s Board of Directors, which met on June 25, 2023, has unanimously decided to appoint Fabrice Brégier as non-executive chairman, with immediate effect.This decision was made on the unanimous recommendation of...
Jun 2 2023 // Renault could face prosecution in France over faulty engines as a group of customers plans to lodge a criminal complaint against the carmaker next week, the group’s lawyer said on Friday.“We are going to file a...
May 22 2023 // France and Germany are showing no sign of nearing a compromise on the role of nuclear energy in the European Union’s transition to cleaner energy, highlighting the challenge faced in reaching a deal in the coming...
Apr 17 2023 // A French court on Monday cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of “involuntary manslaughter,” upsetting families of some of the 228 people killed when an airliner vanished into an Atlantic storm...
Apr 12 2023 // French investigators are treating the deaths of at least six people who were killed when a building collapsed in the city of Marseille as a possible “involuntary homicide” case, a prosecutor said...
Apr 11 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C), Gallagher Re and Mosaic Insurance.A summary of these new hires follows here. Generali Global...
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...