Europe Braces for Freeze of US Foreign Corruption Practices Act February 24, 2025 By Jonathan Browning, Karin Matussek and Gaspard Sebag In recent years, Glencore Plc, Airbus SE and Credit Suisse have collectively paid more than $5.5 billion in fines for...
Update: TikTok Sued by Families in France After Children’s Suicides November 4, 2024 By Gaspard Sebag and Benoit Berthelot TikTok was sued by a group of seven French families who blame the social network app for harming the mental...
Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Failure to Stop Crime on App August 27, 2024 By Gaspard Sebag Pavel Durov, the chief executive officer of Telegram, has been detained in France over claims that the messaging service failed...
PwC Sued by Auditor Over Head Injury Suffered During ‘Pub Golf’ Work Event August 23, 2022 By Gaspard Sebag An auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP sued his employer over a serious head injury he suffered during a work event that...
Paris Resident Seeks $22M for Health Damage Caused by Air Pollution May 6, 2022 By Gaspard Sebag A Paris resident seeking 21 million euros ($22 million) for health damage caused by the city’s pollution got a boost...
French Court Allows Class Action Against Sanofi Over Its Epilepsy Drug Depakine January 5, 2022 By Marthe Fourcade and Gaspard Sebag A French court ruled that families of children who suffered side effects from the epilepsy medicine Depakine can join in...
Airbus, Air France Could Face Charges of Manslaughter over Deadly Crash in 2009 May 13, 2021 By Gaspard Sebag and Charlotte Ryan Airbus SE and Air France-KLM could face charges of involuntary manslaughter over the deadly crash of a Paris-bound plane off...
French #MeToo Milestone: Court Orders Dentist to Pay Damages for Sexual Harassment April 24, 2020 By Gaspard Sebag A dentist was ordered by France’s top court to pay damages for sexually abusing a female assistant after the man...
2 Ex-AIG Employees Win $10M in France, Ahead of Separate $100M Bonus Case in UK June 21, 2019 By Gaspard Sebag and Jonathan Browning Two former American International Group Inc. employees won awards totaling about $10 million after French judges chastised the insurance giant...
Once Voted SocGen’s Woman of the Year, Former Exec Sues for $6M After Firing March 14, 2019 By Gaspard Sebag A veteran executive who was voted woman of the year at Societe Generale SA is suing the bank at a...