Latest France Headlines
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Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes in France; Survivors Unlikely
Mar 24 2015 // An Airbus A320 crash in southern France may have claimed the lives of all 150 people on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in decades. Germanwings Flight 9525 operated by the low-cost subsidiary...
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Plans to Buy 15% Stake in French Reinsurer SCOR
Mar 6 2015 // Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings Inc. will buy a 15 percent stake in French reinsurer SCOR SE in potentially its biggest investment abroad amid diminishing opportunities for growth at home. The insurer will initially buy 7.8...
Armstrong Hit with $10M Sanction in Dispute with Texas Promotions Insurer
Feb 16 2015 // Dallas-based SCA Promotions Inc., a specialist in insuring prizes, promotions and contests, announced that Lance Armstrong has been hit with a $10 million sanctions award by an arbitration panel hearing his dispute with...
Ardian Agrees to Buy JLT’s Stake in Siaci St Honoré
Feb 13 2015 // Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc announced that Ardian has agreed to buy JLT’s 26.2 percent stake in Milestone, the holding company of Siaci St Honoré, JLT’s French associate. This offer extends to all...
Paris Murders Make Finding a Solution to Violence More Imperative
Feb 6 2015 // It will be a month on Saturday since the murderous attacks on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket in Paris took place. These were not the first such attacks by fanatics on...
Characteristics of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attack Thwarted Counter-Terrorism Efforts: RMS
Jan 26 2015 // A number of unique characteristics of the January 7 terrorist attack against satirical French magazine “Charlie Hebdo” allowed terrorists to succeed despite counter-terrorism efforts, according to a new report...
Arnold K. Davis Insurance Merges With Eifert, French & Ketchum in New York
Jan 12 2015 // Arnold K. Davis Insurance, an independent agency in Purchase, New York, has recently merged with Eifert, French & Ketchum, an independent insurance and risk management agency based in Pelham, New York. Arnold K. Davis...
Arsonists Attack German Paper that Published French Cartoons
Jan 12 2015 // Police in Germany have detained two men suspected of an arson attack early Sunday against a newspaper that republished the cartoons of French weekly Charlie Hebdo. The newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost said on its website the...
Paris Killings Seen Fueling Anti-Islam Movements in Europe
Jan 8 2015 // The killing of at least 12 people at a French magazine that received threats because of its depiction of Islam stands to exacerbate burgeoning anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe, political analysts said. The shooting by...
France Sends Expert Search Team to Air Asia Jet Crash Scene
Jan 2 2015 // France’s BEA crash investigation agency said a specialist black box search team and equipment arrived on Friday at the search area for the Indonesia AirAsia flight which crashed on Sunday en route from Indonesia to...
The War that Changed the World – in Commemoration
Nov 11 2014 // On the 11th of November 1914 the 1st World War, or the ‘Great War,’ had already lasted more than three months, and predictions that it would be over by Christmas had largely evaporated. The failure of...
Assurant to Buy French Mobile Device Insurance Broker CWI
Oct 28 2014 // Consumer electronic and household device insurer Assurant Inc. has made a binding offer to acquire CWI Group, a mobile insurance brokerage in France, for approximately €56 million ($71 million). The acquisition by...
Capstone Underwriters’ Bellet Honored by French Government
Oct 27 2014 // Alain A. Bellet, owner and president of Capstone Underwriters LLC, in Dallas, Texas, has been awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the government of France. Alain...
German and French Insurance Markets Show Resilience
Oct 16 2014 // Despite varying internal pressures, the German and French insurance markets have shown resilience in their respective ways, according to two separate reports issued by A.M. Best. While Germany’s economy is among the...
Scientists Calculate Risk of Ebola Spreading to France, Britain
Oct 7 2014 // Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that...
How Insurance Can (or Can’t) Help You – a True Story
Aug 29 2014 // When it comes to personal lines insurance there are really only two attachment points – acquiring the policy and making a claim. The first is fairly simple, although less so if you happen to be a young driver. It’s...
UPDATE: Bad Weather Likely Cause of Air Algerie Crash – French Officials
Jul 25 2014 // Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight over the West African state of Mali with 116 people on board, French officials said on Friday. Investigators at the scene of the crash had...
Aon Benfield June Global, U.S. Cat Report: Thunderstorms, Hail, Floods
Jul 7 2014 // The Global Catastrophe Recap report for June from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting highlights the outbreak of severe thunderstorms that affected Western and Central Europe during the first half of the month, causing...
Armstrong Questioned Under Oath in Case Brought by Dallas Insurer
Jun 13 2014 // Lance Armstrong, stripped of seven Tour de France victories and banned from professional cycling in 2012, was questioned under oath for the first time since he admitted doping in an Oprah Winfrey interview last...
Heat Wave, Thunderstorms Batter Europe: AIR Analysis
Jun 13 2014 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has analyzed the severe thunderstorms that pummeled western and central Europe, starting on Sunday, June 7. The storms packed “extremely strong and damaging winds, large hail,...
