After four consecutive years on the increase, the European insurance sector stopped growing in 2007, notes a study published by the French daily, Les Echos. The DJ Stoxx Insurance index, which brings together the main insurance and reinsurance companies on the European continent, fell 11.9% last year, after growing 80% in previous years. And yet, broadly speaking, the ranking of companies classed according to stock capitalisation has developed very little. In the lead, there is the German...