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The Bermuda Fire case adjourned last week when a $35 million settlement was announced.
Now BF&M's shareholders will give their verdict on the settlement's terms -- at a special general meeting to convene next Tuesday, December 14.
Both the preference...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Capital G, the "one-stop financial shop'' formed by the Gibbons company earlier this year, announced yesterday it was lowering its deposit rates.
The move bucked a three-year trend at Gibbons Deposit Company to maintain the rates at a constant.
But G...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Former Bermuda Fire director William Cox has guardedly admitted awareness that "something might go wrong'' in 1991 -- the year his company made its controversial restructuring.
Liquidators Ernst & Young have charged that the split, which segregated B...
DATE: Nov 25, 1999
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Former Bermuda Fire director William Cox locked horns with Ian Croxford QC in Supreme Court yesterday, as the lawyer bridled at Mr. Cox's frequent invocations of "your client'' -- namely, local accountants Cooper & Lines, employed by Bermuda Fire at ...
DATE: Nov 19, 1999
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Former director of Bermuda Fire William Cox admitted freely that he took a "gloomy'' view of his company's ill-fated books of international business.
However, Mr. Cox insisted to Cooper & Lines lawyer Ian Croxford QC that his clients had advised Berm...
DATE: Nov 18, 1999
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Former Bermuda Fire director Gregory Haycock stated yesterday in Supreme Court that at the time of its 1991 reorganisation, the company was armed with more than sufficient assets, and he had seen no need for a worst case figure in the event of "a pos...
DATE: Nov 05, 1999
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Former Bermuda Fire director Gregory Haycock yesterday continued to wrangle in Supreme Court with Cooper & Lines representative Ian Croxford QC, over the role of Bermuda Fire's finance advisors at the time that Bermuda Fire planned its 1991 reorganis...
DATE: Nov 04, 1999
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Former Bermuda Fire director Gregory Haycock defended his witness statement in the Supreme Court yesterday, denying suggestions that he had overstated the involvement of the company's advisors.
Afternoon sessions began with Mr. Haycock assuring Ian C...
DATE: Nov 02, 1999
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Former director of Bermuda Fire Gregory Haycock spent his second day in the witness box under cross-examination by Geoffrey Vos QC, the lawyer representing law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman.
Mr. Vos took issue with certain points in Mr. Haycock's witne...
DATE: Oct 29, 1999
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Former director of Bermuda Fire Gregory Haycock took the stand yesterday and played down the significance of the company's shake-up.
Referring to Bermuda Fire's 1991 splitting of its domestic general business from the international department, Mr. Ha...
DATE: Oct 28, 1999
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