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Faced with ever increasing ship sizes, such as the quarter-of-a-mile long Emma Maersk container ship and luxury cruise ships worth $1 billion, marine insurance underwriters more than ever need to keep up-to-date with technological advances and the ch...
DATE: May 14, 2007
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American International Group made a $4.13 billion profit for the first quarter of 2007, a 29.3 percent increase that is almost a billion dollars more than the same quarter a year ago.
It now has consolidated assets just shy of a mind-boggling one tri...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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Marine insurance players have a lot to ponder during their two-day risk forum in Bermuda this week. For a starter how to make a profit from the sector.
The hull insurance market, which deals with physical damage to a ship, has not presented a profit ...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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Newcomer Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings achieved a profit of $35.6 million in the first quarter of 2007.
The company was set up in 2005 and made its initial public offering on April 1 this year raising $175.5 million.
During the opening three months ...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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Seniors still have an opportunity to attend the second of two free technology events this week to find out about the computerised and digitalised world of the 21st century.
They will be introduced to the newest innovations and shown how to use techno...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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PXRE has reported a $7.2 million loss for the opening three months of 2007.
The Bermuda company is in the process of merging with the giant Texas-based Argonaut Group in a move that will create a group with a combined market capitalisation of just ov...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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Allied World Assurance Company (AWAC) has agreed not to enter into any type of "pay-to-play" arrangements in Texas or to represent itself as an affiliate, subsidiary or division of American International Group (AIG) or Chubb Corporation.
Those are am...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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Even as he prepares to embark on this third wine-making season in Burgundy, France, early arriving bottles of his debut 2005 vintage are being met with approval on the Island.
Bermudian wine producer David Butterfield has reason to raise a glass or t...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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The site of the former NASA station at Cooper's Island could once more become Bermuda's link to outer space.
The out-of-bounds area of buildings and infrastructure abandoned by the US space agency when it left the Island in 2001 is being viewed as on...
DATE: May 09, 2007
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Allied World Assurance Company has turned in a first-quarter profit of $113.9 million, a rise of $15.8m on the same three months a year ago.
While its gross written premiums for property, casualty and reinsurance have decreased by a total of $60m, lo...
DATE: May 09, 2007
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