In a climate of uncertainty, deprived of social interaction, leisure and, for some, work, the mental health of the French, and more particularly young people, is suffering a blow after a year of health crisis. Faced with the increasing number of situations of distress related to mental health, the insurers of the Fédération Française de l’Assurance, in conjunction with the Mutualité Française and the Institutions de Prévoyance, have decided to act and are setting up a new scheme.

The French Insurance Federation and five trade union organisations - CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, FO and UNSA - have just made official, in the presence of French Minister Elisabeth Moreno, the signing of a new agreement on gender equality, diversity and equal work opportunities for women and men in insurance companies.

A further step has been taken in the implementation of the ‘Insurers - Caisse des Dépôts Sustainable Recovery France’ investment programme with the closing of the Healthcare component, a major part of this €2.2 billion programme. The last tranche, totalling €780 million financed by 19 insurers and 3 institutional investors, aims to strengthen health sovereignty in France by investing in healthcare research, infrastructure, logistics and services.

Since the commitments made by the federations of landlords on 17 April and the establishment of a charter of best practices for the negotiation of Q2 2020 rent waivers or postponements, the members of the federations of landlords, the insurers and CDC Habitat have started implementing rent postponements and waivers for periods when shops are closed as part of discussions with their tenants. Some of these discussions are still ongoing and must continue.

As the country prepares for its second period of lockdown, the French Insurance Federation expresses its full solidarity with the French people and the entire community of policyholders.
Update : 4 november 2020

Following the deadly and devastating floods that plunged the Alpes-Maritimes department into mourning, insurers and CCR made a first estimate of claims in terms of number and cost.

A total of 14,000 claims are expected to be filed for a cost of insured losses that is expected to reach €210 million. Insurers and CCR are committed to handling these claims as quickly as possible.

A further step is taken in the development of the investment programme “Insurers - Caisse des Dépôts Sustainable Stimulus France”, with the selection of the manager Montefiore Investment to invest and manage the Nov Tourisme - unlisted shares Sustainable Stimulus France fund.

The planet is now facing a health crisis for which the length and repercussions are still difficult to assess. We insurers, are aware of the distress of entrepreneurs whose activity stopped overnight, with a brutality that obviously cannot leave anyone insensitive. It is therefore essential to quickly draw the first lessons from this crisis and to build together a mechanism that will make it possible to better protect companies in the future.

Paris, 2 July 2020 - One year ago, the primary professional bodies and associations representative of the Paris Financial Centre (ASF-French Association of Financial Companies , AFG–French Asset Management Association, FBF-French Banking Federation, FFA-French Insurance Federation, France Invest- French association of private equity actors, Paris EUROPLACE and Finance for Tomorrow) announced new commitments to combat climate change and to further the goal of a net zero-emissions economy by 2050. Today, they have seized this occasion to review the actions taken thus far and those yet to come.