Over a period of 13 days in late May and early June 2016, France experienced its most serious flooding in recent decades, with more than 19 departments affected and a ministerial decree declaring a state of national disaster for more than 2,000 municipalities.
A total of 182,000 claims were submitted to insurers, with the cost exceeding €1.4 bn.

The French Insurance Federation (FFA) Ninth International Insurance Conference will be held on Friday, 27 October 2017 from 9:00 to 17:00, on the theme "Insurance in a World of Disruption".

Alexis Meyer studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration from 2005 to 2007 and also holds a Masters in Advanced Studies in Applied Economics from the Université Paris XII.

Assistant Director in the department of human resources of the City of Paris since 2013, he previously worked in the city’s schools department. He was employed in the French Directorate-General of the Treasury from 2009 to 2011 as assistant to the head of the insurance companies and intermediaries bureau. From 2007 to 2009, Alexis Meyer was assistant to the head of the economic and monetary union bureau. Between 1998 and 2003 he had a number of different roles in the finance department of the City of Paris.

In March 2017, net life insurance savings inflows matched outflows.

From the beginning of the year 2017, insurance companies collected 34.7 billion Euros of premiums (compared to 37.3 billion Euros over the same period in 2016). Payments to unit-linked products accounted for 9.3 billion Euros from the start of the year, i.e. 27% of premiums.