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7th Annual MHBT Charity Golf Classic Raises $47K for Dallas Charities

Nov 21 2007 // Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy, L.L.P. (MHBT) announced that its 7th annual charity golf tournament raised approximately $47,000 that benefited ten local charities, including: The Trains at NorthPark, supporting...

PartnerRe Share Repurchase Increased to Five Million

Nov 20 2007 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in the Company’s share repurchase authorization for a total of up to 5 million common shares. “This reflects an...

AIR Raises Typhoon Krosa Loss Estimates – $200 to $600 Million

Oct 12 2007 // AIR Worldwide’s preliminary estimates of insured losses caused by Typhoon Krosa originally assessed the damage in Taiwan (See IJ web site Oct. 11). However, the storm subsequently crossed the South China Sea, and has...

CNA Adds D&O and E&O for Private Equity, Venture Capital Firms

Sep 11 2007 // CNA Specialty is now offering directors and officers (D&O) as well as errors and omissions (E&O) coverage for private equity and venture capital firms.CNA is targeting firms whose funds range up to $5 billion in...

More than $564,000 Raised for Bridge Disaster Fund

Sep 11 2007 // The fund set up to help victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse has grown to more than $564,000, organizers said.Much of the money was to start getting distributed this week to groups that offered help such as...

Symetra Financial Hopes to Raise $750 Million in Public Offering

Jul 2 2007 // Symetra Financial Corp. out of Bellevue, Wash., said Friday it filed for an initial public offering of common shares.The shares will be offered by existing stockholders. The IPO expects to raise up to $750 million,...

Quanta Details Share Repurchase Plan

Jun 5 2007 // Bermuda-based Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. has made preliminary tender offer filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to its plans to offer to repurchase, through its wholly-owned subsidiary QCH...

Greenlight IPO Raises $258 Million

May 31 2007 // Cayman Islands-based Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. announced the completion of its initial public offering of 11,787,500 Class A Ordinary Shares including 1,537,500 Class A Ordinary Shares sold pursuant to the...

Endurance Increases Share Repurchase Authorization

May 14 2007 // Bermuda’s Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in the number of ordinary shares authorized for repurchase under the Company’s share repurchase program...

Max Capital Posts $80 Million Q1 Net; Increases Share Repurchase Plan

May 9 2007 // The Bermuda-based Max Capital Group Ltd. reported net income for the three months ended March 31, 2007, of $80.0 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, compared to net income of $75.3 million, or $1.19 per diluted share, for...

Willis Accelerates Share Repurchase

Apr 2 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Limited announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase approximately 10.2 million shares of its common stock from J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. “using an accelerated stock repurchase...

Arch Announces $1 Billion Share Repurchase Program

Mar 5 2007 // The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company to invest up to $1 billion in the Company’s common shares through a share repurchase...

China Life IPO Expected to Raise up to $3.6 Billion

Dec 27 2006 // China Life Insurance Co. says it will set a price this week for an initial public offering on Chinese markets that could raise up to 28 billion yuan (US$3.6 billion; euro2.8 billion).The company would become the first...

MHBT Charity Golf Classic Raises More Than $47K for Local Charities

Nov 21 2006 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT), a privately owned insurance and risk management firm based in Dallas, announced that its sixth annual charity golf tournament raised more than $47,000 for local charities,...

OneBeacon raises $600 Million in IPO

Nov 10 2006 // OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd., a property casualty unit of Bermuda-based reinsurer White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd, has raised an estimated $600 million in its initial public offering.OneBeacon’s 24 million...

Safeco Declares Regular Dividend and Share Repurchase Increase

Nov 3 2006 // Safeco has declared a regular dividend of $0.30 per share on its common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 22, 2007, to shareholders of record on Jan. 5, 2007. The company also announced that its board of directors has...

Safeco Announces $250 Million Share Repurchase

Aug 14 2006 // Safeco announced it has executed a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan to purchase up to $250 million of its outstanding shares of common stock. A Rule 10b5-1 plan allows Safeco to repurchase its shares during periods when the...

Safeco Announces Share Repurchase Increase, Declares Dividend

Aug 11 2006 // Safeco announced that its board of directors has increased the company’s share repurchase authorization to 10 million shares, including shares that remain available for repurchase under previously approved programs....

La. Insurance Candidates Raise $1.2M

Jul 19 2006 // Editor’s note: This story updates campaign figures for Louisiana insurance commissioner candidates which were posted July 18 on this Web site.The three candidates running for Louisiana’s Commissioner of...

Louisiana Commissioner Hopefuls Raise More Than $600K

Jul 18 2006 // The three candidates running for Louisiana’s Commissioner of Insurance collected more than $600,000 since the beginning of the year.Acting Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon raised the most of the three, with...