Latest Bermuda Headlines

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Category 4 Hurricane Nicole Lashes Bermuda with Winds & Flooding Rain

Oct 13 2016 // Hurricane Nicole, which has become a Category 4 hurricane, will continue to lash Bermuda with winds and flooding rain through Thursday, according to a report issued by AccuWeather.As a Category 4 hurricane with sustained...

AIG Selling Stake in Ascot Lloyd’s Syndicate; Will Keep Bermuda, Reinsurance Ties

Sep 16 2016 // American International Group Inc. has agreed to sell its interest in Ascot Underwriting Holdings Ltd. (AUHL) and related syndicate-funding subsidiary Ascot Corporate Name Ltd. to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board...

Allied World Bermuda Appoints Chow as Senior VP, Professional Lines

Aug 26 2016 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings announced that Dale Chow has been appointed to senior vice president, Professional Lines, for Allied World Bermuda. In this role, Chow will be responsible for the strategic...

Willis Re Taps Aon’s McDowell to Lead Bermuda Unit; Harden as APAC President

Aug 23 2016 // Willis Re announced the appointment of Chris McDowell as CEO of Willis Re Bermuda. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, he will succeed Michael Harden, CEO of Willis Re Bermuda since 2014, who is returning to the Asia Pacific region as...

XL Group Completes Relocation of Domicile to Bermuda

Jul 27 2016 // XL Group Ltd. announced it has completed its redomestication to change the place of incorporation of the ultimate parent holding company to Bermuda from Ireland.As previously announced, the name of the new holding company...

Correction: Catalina to Buy Hartford Financial Products International & Downlands Liability Management

Jul 27 2016 // (Editor’s Note: The original version of this article published yesterday, July 26, omitted “International” from the headline “Catalina to Buy Hartford Financial Products International &...

Catalina to Buy Hartford Financial Products International & Downlands Liability Management

Jul 26 2016 // (Editor’s Note: The original version of this article published yesterday, July 26, omitted “International” from the headline “Catalina to Buy Hartford Financial Products International &...

Randall & Quilter Buys Bermuda-Based Segregated Accounts Captive Company

Jul 18 2016 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. has acquired Agency Program Insurance Co. (SAC) Ltd., a Bermuda-based segregated accounts captive company with 28 cells.London-based Randall & Quilter (R&Q) is paying...

Bermuda Insurance Industry Expected to Grow by 10.3% Annually Until 2019

Jul 14 2016 // The Bermuda insurance industry is projected to grow at a steady pace as a result of new regulations and consistent growth in external business, such as offshore and captive, according to a new report published by...

AXIS Capital’s New Bermuda Operation, Harrington Re, Raises $600M

Jul 6 2016 // Harrington Re, a fledgling Bermuda operation sponsored by AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., has raised $600 million in capital designed to beef up underwriting and investment plans put forth by its sponsor. Blackstone Group will...

Bermuda Market Associations Allay Fears of Brexit Contagion

Jul 1 2016 // Four leaders of Bermuda market groups quickly issued statements last week to allay any fears that the fallout from the UK’s Brexit vote would hit their market as well.“In a global economy, Bermuda is affected,...

XL Group’s Shareholders Approve Move to Bermuda from Ireland

Jun 24 2016 // XL Group plc announced that its ordinary shareholders have approved a scheme of arrangement that will change the place of incorporation of the ultimate parent holding company to Bermuda from Ireland, which is expected to...

Specialist Lloyd’s Insurer Neon Opens Bermuda Office with Fisher as CEO

Jun 21 2016 // The specialist Lloyd’s insurer Neon, formerly known as Marketform, announced it has opened an office in Bermuda as it grows its international footprint with greater access to both the Bermudian and U.S....

CFOs Must View Their Companies ‘Holistically’: Hamilton’s CFO Reiss

Jun 13 2016 // A successful chief financial officer needs to be collegial, cooperative, highly visible and a strategic thinker who has the ability to view corporate risks holistically, according to Jonathan Reiss, CFO of Bermuda-based...

Iron-Starr Forms Underwriting Alliance with Oil Casualty Insurance

Jun 10 2016 // Ironshore Inc. has added Oil Casualty Insurance, Ltd. (OCIL) as a subscribing insurer to Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd. for Financial Lines business. Iron-Starr currently underwrites on behalf of Ironshore Insurance Ltd....

Captive Manager Marsh IAS Promotes 2 Senior Leaders in Bermuda

Apr 28 2016 // Marsh IAS has appointed Jill Husbands as chairman of Marsh IAS Bermuda and Lawrence Bird as head of office in Bermuda.Husbands succeeds David Ezekiel who retired on Dec. 31, 2015. Husbands will focus on strategic growth...

Carpenter Promotes Stubbings as CEO of Bermuda Unit; Keegan Named Sr. VP

Apr 25 2016 // Guy Carpenter & Co. has promoted Peter Stubbings as CEO of the firm’s Bermuda operations, with immediate effect. In addition, Richard Keegan will join the Bermuda team as senior vice president in May.Previously...

White Mountains Closes $2.6B Sale of Sirius to China Minsheng Investment

Apr 19 2016 // White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. completed its $2.6 billion sale of Sirius International Insurance Group to a division of China Minsheng Investment Corp. Ltd., nine months after the deal was first announced.Out of that...

Plenum Launches Diversified ILS Fund, Partnering with Bermuda’s Sequant Re

Apr 11 2016 // Plenum Investments Ltd. has launched an insurance linked securities (ILS) fund, which will invest in collateralized reinsurance transactions, to be sourced and underwritten by Bermuda’s boutique reinsurer Sequant...

Antares Lloyd’s Syndicate Partners with Iron-Starr, Ironshore’s Bermuda MGA

Apr 7 2016 // Ironshore Inc. announced that Antares Syndicate 1274 at Lloyd’s will join as a subscribing insurer for Bermuda-based Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd.Iron-Starr is a managing general agency (MGA), which underwrites...