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Max Re Invests $50 Million in DaVinci Re
Jan 9 2002 // Bermuda’s Max Re Capital Ltd. announced that it has purchased $50 million worth of shares in DaVinci Re Holdings Ltd, and its operating subsidiary DaVinci Reinsurance Ltd. (DaVinci Re), the new Bermuda-based property...
A.M. Best Gives Goshawk Re A- (Excellent) Rating
Jan 4 2002 // A.M. Best Co. assigned an initial financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) to Goshawk Reinsurance Limited (Goshawk Re), the recently established Bermuda-based subsidiary of the U.K.’s Goshawk Insurance Holdings...
Golden Gate Capital Invests in Bermuda-Based Endurance Specialty Insurance
Jan 4 2002 // Golden Gate Capital, a private equity investment firm based in San Francisco, Calif., has invested in Endurance Specialty Insurance, a Bermuda-based start-up focusing on the commercial property and liability insurance and...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Bermuda’s Monetary Authority to Handle Insurance Regulation
Dec 4 2001 // The Government of Bermuda has transferred responsibility for regulating the island’s insurance operations from the Finance Ministry to the Monetary Authority in a move seen by analysts as increasing transparency and...
AIG, Chubb, Goldman Sachs Establish New $1.5 Billion Bermuda Insurer
Nov 27 2001 // American International Group and Chubb Corp. have joined with GS Capital Partners 2000, L.P., an investment fund managed by Goldman Sachs & Co.to establish Allied World Assurance Holdings Ltd. with a total equity...
AXIS Specialty Begins Operations with $1.6 Billion
Nov 21 2001 // Bermuda-based AXIS Specialty Ltd., the new insurance and reinsurance company established by Marsh & McLennan subsidiary MMC Capital through its Trident II L.P. fund, announced that it has begun operations with an...
Arch Capital Bermuda Sub Fully Funded with
Nov 21 2001 // Arch Capital Group’s Arch Reinsurance, formed in response to the WTC disasters (See IJ Website Oct.25), announced that it has closed $763 million in private equity funding arrangements with Warburg Pincus, San...
New Capital Boosts Bermuda’s Reinsurance Industry
Nov 19 2001 // As the reinsurance industry gears up to replace a good portion of the capital lost in the Sept. 11 attacks, companies are seeking to place themselves in a position to profit from the expected surge in demand and resulting...
New Capital Boosts Bermuda’s Reinsurance Industry
Nov 12 2001 // The reinsurance industry is gearing up to replace a good portion of the capital lost in the Sept. 11 attacks, and companies are also seeking to place themselves in a position to profit from the expected surge in demand and...
Hardening Market Heralds Rush to Alternatives
Nov 12 2001 // During the last hard market, much of corporate America wasted little time in stepping up the search for risk transfer alternatives to traditional commercial insurance. The current hard market appears to be no different if...
Aon, Zurich to Sponsor New Bermuda Insurer
Nov 8 2001 // Aon Corp. and Zurich Financial Services will sponsor and partially fund, Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., a new Bermuda-based insurance capacity vehicle with an initial capitalization of $1.2 billion. Each of the...
White Mountains To Set Up Bermuda Reinsurer
Nov 5 2001 // Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group joined the race for new reinsurance capacity on Friday with the announcement that it would establish a new reinsurer with an initial capital of $1 billion. The company said it...
Will Reinsurance Rebound from Terrorist Strikes in the U.S.’
Oct 29 2001 // If the nautical term best applied to the reinsurance industry last year this time would have been “Steady as she goes,” after the catastrophe that struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the French term “sauve qui...
Arch Capital in Deal With Equity Investors to Launch Bermuda Reinsurer
Oct 25 2001 // Arch Capital (AC) joined other Bermuda-based insurers in announcing plans to establish a new reinsurance company. Backed by the private equity firms Warburg Pincus and San Francisco’s Hillman & Friedman, Arch...
Global Insurers Acknowledge Increased Exposures from Attacks
Oct 10 2001 // A number of global insurers/reinsurers have acknowledged greater exposure to claims related to the destruction of the World Trade Center, with increased estimates for the amount they expect to pay out. The total cost to...
Bermuda Reinsurers Preliminary Loss Estimates from Terrorist Attacks
Sep 17 2001 // A number of Bermuda-based insurers have extended their condolences to the families of victims of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bermuda’s two largest insurers, ACE and XL, made...
Report Bermuda Studies Limits on Development
Aug 27 2001 // Bermuda’s rapidly developing offshore banking and insurance business is apparently causing problems for the island’s infrastructure which are serious enough to warrant a government study on how to limit future...
Hardening Market Heralds Rush to Alternatives
Aug 20 2001 // During the last hard market, much of corporate America wasted little time in stepping up the search for risk transfer alternatives to traditional commercial insurance. The current hard market appears to be no different if...
