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French insurance companies have rejected an appeal by the minister for
social affairs calling on them to pay compensation to haemophiliacs infected
with HIV.

Jean-Louis Bianco asked insurance firms, in the name of ‘national solidarity’,
to set up a ‘rapid, complete and fair’ compensation scheme for haemophiliacs
treated in the early 1980s with clotting factor contaminated with HIV.

The national insurance federation refused, saying that money cannot
be handed out for risks not covered by contract.

The French haemophiliacs’ association condemned Bianco’s appeal and
demanded immediate legislation to introduce compensation.