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merger, but chairman and CEO, Victor Blake, has conceded that significant share holdings in the company by Aon and CNA may have put some potential suitors off. Mr. Blake is reported in Reactions magazine's Rendez-vous Reporter as saying that the rece...

Outgoing executive vice president of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, Cyanne Thomas, leaves Bermuda next month with one major misgiving about her three year stint with the Chamber. And she observed the need to improve the consultation processes invol...

Progress towards limiting the personal liability of Bermuda's chartered accountants, and other professionals, has been slow. Managing partner of Ernst & Young Bermuda Jan Spiering commented: "We do feel that some kind of incorporation of the firms wo...

put on hold for as much as a year. That was the word this week as reinsurers and other industry participants attended the annual Rendezvous de Septembres, the annual reinsurance conference in Monte Carlo. The Council of Lloyd's bypassed an opportunit...

Bermuda's reinsurers faced a pivotal year in 1997 as the entire industry became redefined, a new A.M. Best special report has observed. The report noted that distinctions within the Bermuda market had become increasingly vague as insurers and reinsur...

Insurance Co., Ltd. (ACE), XL Insurance Co. Ltd. (XL) and Overseas Partners Reinsurance Ltd. (OP Re). The new entity, Airline Risk Consortium, is providing catastrophe insurance cover for the airline industry, covering aviation, D&O, property and oth...

Bankers Trust Corporation has agreed to sell its insurance products business to Swiss-based RR Holding Company Ltd., which controls Rhine Reinsurance Co. Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda (Rhine Re) and Rhine Reinsurance Company Ltd. of Basel, Switzerland. R...

owners to the forefront -- and present possible solutions. It is being hosted by the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation (BSBDC) at the Hamilton Princess Hotel. Scheduled for the last Monday of the month, the event is entitled: Women and E...

(Double-A-Minus) claims paying ability rating of Capital Title Reinsurance Company (Capital Title). Capital Title is a New York-domiciled title insurer that was founded in 1996 with an initial capitalisation of $25 million. The company is a wholly ow...

next week for the annual reinsurance meeting, armed with their new A.M. Best "A(minus)''(Excellent) rating and other changes they expect will be appealing. President and CEO of Stockton Re, Dan Malloy, will this year lead his firm's contingent for th...