Latest Hiscox Headlines

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Hiscox Profits up 186% to $388 Million

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...

Hiscox Acquires Dutch Art Insurer’s Renewal Rights

Feb 14 2007 // Hiscox, the Bermuda-based Group that specializes in fine arts coverage in the US and the UK, “announced the acquisition of the renewal rights of Eriks Assuradeuren, a Dutch insurer specializing in commercial fine...

2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products

Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...

2006 New Markets Report

Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...

Hiscox Completes Bermuda Move

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...

Hiscox Opens Offices in Sweden, Portugal

Nov 23 2006 // Hiscox plc, a leading specialist insurer, has opened two new European offices – one in Sweden and another in Portugal – as part of its commiment to further European development.“The offices in Stockholm...

Business Moves

Nov 19 2006 // Merchants Group Inc. in Buffalo, N.Y., which sells property casualty insurance through Merchants Insurance Co. of New Hampshire, agreed to be bought by American European Group Inc., a private insurance holding company.The...

Business Moves

Nov 19 2006 // Hiscox, Bermuda Holding CompanyLondon’s Hiscox plc outlined its corporate reorganization plan. A new Bermudan domiciled holding company for the Group, Hiscox Ltd., has been established. Shareholders of Hiscox will...

Hiscox USA Offers Technology E&O

Nov 9 2006 // Hiscox USA, part of the Hiscox Group, a provider of specialty insurance, is now licensed to provide technology errors and omissions (E&O) insurance to U.S. businesses directly from its two New York locations.Neil...

New Markets

Nov 6 2006 // Privacy and Security Coverage Enhancements Nuts & Bolts: Underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC have a set of security and privacy coverage enhancements that can be endorsed onto any of the...

New Markets

Nov 5 2006 // Privacy and Security Coverage EnhancementsNuts & Bolts: Underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC have a set of security and privacy coverage enhancements that can be endorsed onto any of the...

Guy Carpenter Launches ‘STEALTH’ E-Trading System for Latin America

Oct 25 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., the global risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, announced that its dedicated facultative reinsurance unit, GCFac, has launched STEALTH (Sabotage and...

Hiscox Prepares Move to Bermuda Holding Company

Oct 25 2006 // London’s Hiscox plc, announced progress in its reorganization plan to establish a Bermuda-based holding company. Hiscox announced that a circular setting out full details of the corporate reorganization together with...

New Markets

Oct 23 2006 // Terrorism InsuranceNuts & Bolts: Hiscox USA, U.S. subsidiary of Hiscox plc, now provides terrorism insurance in the U.S., from the U.S. The coverage is being offered to brokers through Hiscox USA’s Armonk, N.Y....

New Markets

Oct 23 2006 // Terrorism InsuranceNuts & Bolts: Hiscox USA, U.S. subsidiary of Hiscox plc, a provider of specialty insurance, is now providing terrorism insurance in the U.S. The coverage will be offered to brokers through Hiscox...

New Markets

Oct 23 2006 // Terrorism InsuranceNuts & Bolts: Hiscox USA is now providing terrorism insurance in the U.S., from the U.S. The coverage is being offered to brokers through Hiscox USA’s Armonk, New York headquarters. Hiscox...

New Markets

Oct 23 2006 // Corporate Identity TheftNuts & Bolts: National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., a member of American International Group Inc., released AIG Corporate Identity Protection, a new insurance policy...

Hiscox USA Launches Terrorism Insurance Coverage

Sep 14 2006 // Armonk, N.Y.-based Hiscox USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Hiscox plc, will begin providing terrorism insurance in the United States.“Hiscox has over 25 years of experience in terrorism insurance and we are a global...

Hiscox 1H Premiums Up; Profits Down; Plans Bermuda Move

Sep 12 2006 // U.K.-based specialty and Lloyd’s insurer Hiscox plc posted a mixed first half performance. According to its recently published statement gross premiums written rose 43 percent to £625.1 million ($1.167 billion)...

Hiscox Lloyd’s Syndicate ‘in Discussions’ on Bermuda Sidecar

Sep 5 2006 // The U.K.’s Hiscox plc announced that its Board of Directors, is “in discussions which could lead to the creation of a new reinsurer, which will only reinsure Hiscox Syndicate 33,” which it manages, and in...