All the headlines from our Bermuda Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 28 2007 // Lancashire Holdings Limited, which writes a diversified mix of specialty insurance lines both catastrophe and non-catastrophe from twin platforms in Bermuda and London, announced three senior management promotions, as...
Mar 26 2007 // Mercury General commemorates 10th anniversary at NYSEMercury General Corp. rang The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, March 9, 2007, to commemorate its 10th anniversary of being listed on the NYSE....
Mar 15 2007 // Argonaut Group, Inc., a specialty underwriter, and PXRE Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based property reinsurer, have agreed to a merger under which the combined entity will do business as Argo Group International Holdings...
Mar 13 2007 // The newly Bermuda-based Hiscox Ltd. announced greatly improved preliminary results for the year ended December 31, 2006, with record pretax profits of £201.1 million ($388 million) compared to £70.2 million ($135.5...
Mar 7 2007 // Bermuda-based Max Re Capital Ltd. announced that it will seek shareholder approval to change the Company’s name to Max Capital Group Ltd. at the 2007 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) to be held on Friday,...
Feb 20 2007 // Bermuda-based Max Re Capital Ltd. announced that Walker Rainey, previously Senior VP and CFO of Max Europe Holdings Limited, has been promoted to Executive Vice President and CFO of Max Europe Holdings, effective...
Feb 12 2007 // William J. Mullaney was named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. He succeeds Leland C. Launer Jr., who has decided to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most recently served as president of...
Feb 11 2007 // William J. Mullaney was named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. He succeeds Leland C. Launer Jr., who has decided to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most recently served as president of...
Jan 31 2007 // Integro (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that Susan N. Pateras has joined the firm as a Principal in the Healthcare Practice, and will lead the Bermuda Healthcare initiative. “Ms. Pateras has more than a decade of experience...
Jan 26 2007 // A bulletin from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) confirmed that the island had “recorded a three-year high for (re)insurance company incorporations during 2006, with an almost 10 percent increase in the number of...
Jan 3 2007 // London’s Advent Capital Holdings announced that its subsidiary, Advent Re, “has received its class 3 reinsurer license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, effective 27 December 2006.” The Company’s...
Jan 2 2007 // Montgomery, Ala. based Enstar Group and Bermuda’s Castlewood Holdings Limited jointly announced that Castlewood and Oceania Holdings Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Castlewood, have entered into a definitive...
Dec 25 2006 // Accident Site and Public Response Nuts & Bolts: AIG Specialty Excess, an umbrella and excess casualty underwriting unit of the AIG Companies, announced the addition of Accident Site Advisor and PublicResponse to its...
Dec 25 2006 // They’ve long had the expertise. Now they have the money and the technology to go with it. A number of U.K. insurers, who started at Lloyd’s, continued to expand their U.S. presence in 2006, mainly in the...
Dec 24 2006 // They’ve long had the expertise. Now they have the money and the technology to go with it. A number of U.K. insurers, who started at Lloyd’s, continued to expand their U.S. presence in 2006, mainly in the...
Dec 24 2006 // Accident Site and Public ResponseNuts & Bolts: AIG Specialty Excess, an umbrella and excess casualty underwriting unit of the AIG Companies, announced the addition of Accident Site Advisor and PublicResponse to its...
Dec 22 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A-” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Amlin Bermuda Limited (ABL) with a stable outlook.“The ratings...
Dec 13 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to “A” (Excellent) from “A-” (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a” from “a-” of Bermuda-based...
Dec 13 2006 // The UK-based Hiscox Limited has officially become Bermuda-based Hiscox Ltd., as shares of the redomiciled Group were admitted to trade on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, Dec. 12. Hiscox noted that “following...
Nov 26 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Aspen Insurance UK Limited (AIUK). Best also affirmed the ICR of...