Beazley Acquiring The Hartford’s Surplus Lines Insurer, First State

By | February 17, 2009

  • February 17, 2009 at 8:44 am
    stckbyr says:
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    I’ll assume your question wasn’t meant to be serious. But if it was.

    I imagine the relative differences in the size of Lexington and First State could explain the reason. First State is being sold for $34 million and Lexington has nearly $15 billion in assets and about $4.5 billion in surplus.

    I would guess that Lexington has as diverse and complex book of XS and Surplus lines in force as anyone in the industry and certainly is a harder company to gets one’s hands around.

    I would have to wonder who, if anyone, has both the resources and the confidence they can figure out what is in Lexington (including anything lurking in its past) to buy Lexington.

  • February 17, 2009 at 11:17 am
    Grade School Lessons says:
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  • February 17, 2009 at 1:49 am
    Jeff says:
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    If Hartford can sell First State to raise cash, why can’t the AIG sell the Lexington?



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