Bermuda-based ACE Ltd. may have to pay out more than $130,000 to a ten-year-old English Lord who was hit in the eye by a tennis ball, according to a local evening British newspaper.

The report, run in the Grimsby Telegraph, said Lord George Worsley, the son and heir of the wealthy Earl of Yarborough, is attempting to get 92,000 ($132,480) after an accident at his school.

The boy is said to have permanent eye damage and some loss of sight after an accidnt a year ago in February.

The article states: "Lord Worsley, through his mother, the Countess of Yarborough, is to ask a High Court judge to approve settlement of a claim against Ace Insurance, formerly Cigna, under a pupil's personal accident policy.'' The English High Court has to approve the settlement, the newspaper said, because Lord Worsley is under 18.

The Grimsby Telegraph is a daily newspaper for the English town called Grimsby with about 90,000 inhabitants. The pay-out works out at a pound an inhabitant.

The newspaper also covers the northeast Linconshire area and has a circulation of about 40,000 (the equivalent of two thirds of Bermuda's population).

The family is featured in the newspaper as being one of the main aristocrats in the area, having thier seat in Lincolnshire and three sons and a daughter.

The lawyer said to be acting for the family, Polly Handsford of solicitors Fosters of London, is quoted as saying: "It is just an infant settlement.

There is nothing controversial.'' The paper did not name the school which the boy attends, but said that it was in Lincolnshire.

Lord Yarborough was listed at 447th place in The Sunday Times Rich List with a fortune of an estimated 70 million ($100.8 million).

The newspaper said that the Earl was left a fortune of 67 million, including 28,000 acres of land -- an area about double the size of Bermuda -- in Linconshire and some fine are when he inherited his title in 1991.