Latest Hiscox Headlines
All the headlines from our Hiscox Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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 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...
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 Insurance Nuts & 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 Insurance Nuts & 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 Insurance Nuts & 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 Theft Nuts & 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...
Hiscox Launches New D&O Policy
Aug 29 2006 // The U.K.’s Hiscox Insurance Co. has launched of a new management liability policy developed to cover the liabilities of U.K. companies, their directors and employees. Hiscox said it had revamped the coverage...
Hiscox AGM Statement
Jun 21 2006 // The U.K.’s Hiscox plc, a leading specialist insurer, operating in the Lloyd’s market, Bermuda and the U.S. said it “will give the following update at its Annual General Meeting,” scheduled to be...
Business Moves
Apr 3 2006 // Shareholders of Lincoln National Corp. approved its $7.5 billion acquisition of rival Jefferson-Pilot Corp. The combined company, with 2004 revenue of $9.5 billion, will be headquartered in Philadelphia. Eastern buys...
Hiscox Launches New U.S. Operation
Mar 15 2006 // Hiscox plc, a provider of specialty insurance based in the U.K., has opened a new U.S.-based underwriting operation offering cover for small and mid-size US professional service businesses outside the Fortune 1000. Hiscox...
Hiscox Weathers Hurricanes, But 2005 Profits Decrease
Mar 14 2006 // Hiscox Plc, the U.K.-based Lloyd’s and specialty insurer, released its 2005 preliminary results on Monday, March 13. Although Hiscox was one of many companies whose earnings were adversely affected by last...
Thieves Now Target Men for Bag Theft
Feb 14 2006 // Purse snatching has traditionally been a crime directed against women, but the growing use of small electronic devices by men, has increasingly made them the victims of grab and run thieves. A bulletin on the Lloyd’s...
Hiscox Warns on Coverage for iPods, MP3’s; No Homeowner Coverage
Dec 22 2005 // Hiscox Plc, the U.K.-based specialty and Lloyd’s insurer, has issued a warning to music lovers that they could face a “double whammy” if their portable player is lost or stolen. They could lose not only...
Best Rates U.K.’s Hiscox, Lloyd’s Syndicate, Bermuda Start-Up
Dec 19 2005 // A.M. Best Co. has announced its credit ratings on U.K. specialist and Lloyd’s insurer Hiscox plc. and its operating entities. It affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A-” (Excellent) and the...
Eurpoean Collector, Insurer Addresses ‘Art Basil’ in Miami Beach
Dec 19 2005 // The trials and tribulations of maintaining and insuring a well-known corporate art collection, from bombings by the IRA, to being stolen by builders and damaged when cleaners sprayed paintings with window cleaner, were...
