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The Bermuda re/insurance market is coming under increasing pressure from low insurance rates and the market cycle has yet to reach its trough, according to a special report on the Island’s insurers by credit ratings agency AM Best Co.
The report, ent...
DATE: Dec 03, 2010
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Premier Paula Cox is hopeful that the Island can strengthen links with the world’s second biggest economy after she yesterday signed a tax information exchange agreement with China in a ceremony at Camden.
Wang Li, the deputy commissioner of China’s ...
DATE: Dec 03, 2010
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Bermuda-based re/insurer Hiscox says $5 million-plus US hospital liability losses are trending significantly higher, posing a threat to excess insurers’ results.
Industry research by the company found that the frequency of large hospital liability lo...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Business will go where the environment is the most predictable and friendly, says Ace Ltd. chairman and chief executive officer Evan Greenberg.
To continue the success of its international business sector, Bermuda needs an infrastructure that can com...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Government plans to update e-commerce laws to ensure that they keep pace with technological advances.
Business Development and Tourism Minister Patrice Minors told MPs in the House of Assembly on Friday that the new laws will seek to provide a better...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Former HWP employee Tom Nelmes has been named as the new chief operating officer of Bermuda Export Sea Transfer Ltd. (BEST Shipping).
Mr. Nelmes will start in the role on December 1.
BEST Shipping chief executive officer David Sousa said: “It is ind...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd. plans to buy back about 15 percent of its own shares after it rejected a second takeover bid from Lloyd’s of London insurance market rival Beazley plc.
The Bermuda-based re/insurer will begin the repurchase if Beazley ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Jamela Daniels is seeking to make an impact by offering advertisers an unusual vehicle — literally — for getting their message across.
The 31-year-old set up her own business, Impact Media, last June and has already made her presence felt on the Isla...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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Bermuda-based private-equity fund Oakley Capital Investments Ltd. has acquired 50 percent of Time Out, the listings magazine publisher.
The company, whose chairman is former Appleby partner James Keyes, made the announcement yesterday morning.
Time O...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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Three shots were reportedly fired during an armed robbery of a branch of Butterfield Bank in the Cayman Islands yesterday.
The incident took place at the Compass Banking Centre on North Sound Road this morning.
A spokesman at Butterfield's Bermuda he...
DATE: Nov 25, 2010
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