Latest France Headlines
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French Press Maker Denies Defect, Sues Starbucks for Product Disparagement
May 15 2019 // Bodum Holding AG sued Starbucks Corp. on Friday for alleged product disparagement in connection with the coffee company’s recent U.S. and Canadian recall of 263,200 co-branded French presses made from recycled...
Whistleblowers Trigger French Probe into Potential Nuclear Safety Fraud
May 15 2019 // French nuclear regulator ASN said it had launched an investigation into elements of fraud and falsification regarding nuclear safety, after receiving several warnings from whistleblowers. Last November, the ASN launched a...
G7 Countries Will Simulate Major Cross-Border Cyber Attack on Financial Sector
May 13 2019 // Leading Western industrial powers will for the first time jointly simulate a major cross-border cyber-security attack on the financial sector next month, French officials said on Friday. The exercise, organized by the...
Warning: Cyber Will Soon Cost Insurers More Than Natural Disasters
May 12 2019 // Cyber risks will soon become bigger risks than natural catastrophes for the insurance sector, Scor Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Denis Kessler said, recommending the industry build a comprehensive, common global...
Ex-Executives at French Telecoms Group Orange on Trial over Wave of Staff Suicides
May 6 2019 // Former bosses at leading French telecoms group Orange were due to go on trial on Monday over a series of suicides at the company in the late 2000s – a traumatic episode that shocked the nation and raised questions...
Liberty Specialty Markets Promotes Silvestre to Deputy Manager for France
Apr 23 2019 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Emmanuel Silvestre to deputy general manager of its French operation. He reports to Richard Deguettes, general manager for France. Based...
Notre Dame Fire Should Be Wake-Up Call for State of Other European Monuments
Apr 23 2019 // It’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many loved ones, all is assumed to be fine, until suddenly it’s not. In the wake of...
Insurance Adjuster Reports 90% of Notre Dame Cathedral Treasure Saved from Fire
Apr 17 2019 // Some 90 percent of the priceless relics and art works housed within the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral were saved from Monday’s devastating fire as contingency plans to evacuate the treasures worked, a leading...
France’s AXA Insures 2 Notre Dame Contractors, Some Religious Artworks
Apr 16 2019 // French insurance firm AXA said on Tuesday it provided insurance coverage for two of the contracting firms that were working on Notre-Dame’s restoration prior to the blaze that devastated the cathedral. The fire...
Government and Benefactors, Not Insurers, to Bear Cost of Notre Dame Rebuilding
Apr 16 2019 // Major European insurers expect France to bear the bulk of the cost of rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire tore through the eight-centuries-old Paris landmark on Monday. The cost of a likely multi-year...
Corporate, Individual Donations Pour In for Effort to Restore Notre Dame
Apr 16 2019 // France’s luxury-goods tycoons are among the country’s wealthiest individuals and companies to pledge at least 600 million euros ($678 million) to help in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame cathedral a day after...
French Court Rules Bayer’s Monsanto Weedkiller Liable for Farmer’s Health Problems
Apr 11 2019 // A French appeals court ruled on Thursday that Bayer’s Monsanto business was liable for the health problems of a farmer who had inhaled a weedkiller product. The ruling in favor of farmer Paul Francois was announced...
EU Gives Britain 6-Month Brexit Extension, Despite French Resistance
Apr 11 2019 // European Union leaders gave Britain six more months to leave the bloc, more than Prime Minister Theresa May says she needs but less than many in the bloc wanted, thanks to fierce resistance from France. The summit deal in...
Prime Minister May Seeks Another Brexit Delay, Setting Up Battle With EU
Apr 5 2019 // Prime Minister Theresa May has asked the European Union to delay Brexit until June 30, setting up a battle with the bloc ahead of a key summit next week. May wants an extension to June 30 and aims to avoid holding European...
French Activist Fund Aims to Remove SCOR CEO Kessler from Board
Mar 26 2019 // French activist fund CIAM will ask reinsurance company SCOR’s CEO Denis Kessler to surrender the chairmanship of the company’s board after he thwarted a takeover attempt earlier this year. CIAM, which has just...
France Works to Contain Fuel Spill After Italian Container Ship Sinks
Mar 15 2019 // French authorities are working to contain a fuel spill off the Atlantic Coast after an Italian container ship sank following a fire. French and British rescue teams saved all 27 people aboard the Grande America after it...
Danske Bank Investigated by French Authorities for Suspected Money Laundering
Feb 8 2019 // Danske Bank A/S says it’s been placed under formal investigation in France over suspected money laundering at its Estonian branch. The Copenhagen-based bank said the investigation covers transactions from 2007 to...
French Court Considers Decade-Old Case Against Monsanto for Safety Failures
Feb 7 2019 // A decade-old lawsuit in which a French farmer with neurological problems accuses Monsanto of not providing adequate safety warnings for a weedkiller returns to court on Wednesday, adding to health claims faced by the...
Swiss Re Partners with Insurtech Firm OZON, Offering Cyber Risk Solution in France
Feb 5 2019 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is expanding its cyber offering by launching CyberSolution 360°, a risk management solution that combines insurance with cyber attack protection services. Developed in the exclusive...
French Insurer Covea Abandons Hostile Takeover of SCOR
Jan 30 2019 // SCOR SE slumped the most in more than a decade in Paris trading [on Tuesday, Jan. 28] after rival Covea abandoned efforts to buy the French reinsurer, ending one of the country’s most acrimonious takeover attempts in...
