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Catastrophe models are coming under fire following Hurricane Katrina, with some fearing that many initial insured loss estimates generated by the models will be inaccurate.
Stephen Way, chairman and chief executive officer of HCC Insurance Holdings, ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2005
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Insurance industry losses from Hurricane Katrina could triple what the sector paid out after Hurricane Andrew, according to a leading risk modeller which yesterday revised estimates up into the $40 billion to $60 billion range.
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DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday fell one point, or 0.03 percent, to 3,630.31.
Pushing down the Index were KeyTech shares, as they lost 0.5 percent, or five cents on trading of 2,700 shares.
KeyTech is the telecommunications h...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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You love 'em or you hate 'em. And to judge by an enormous mailbag from last week, you hate the Bermuda pension.
"It's a depressing subject," one correspondent said, of a subject that, if you think about it, ought to fill you with joy.
I must deal wit...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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TAMPA, Florida ? As the cleanup from Hurricane Katrina begins, a big fight could be brewing among insurers, policyholders, lawyers and regulators over who will shoulder the enormous cost of damage to thousands of homes.
Most homeowners in the hardest...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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BF&M Limited reported record half year results yesterday with a 169 percent increase in earnings of $8.9 million for the period ended June 30, 2005 compared with $3.3 million for the first six months in 2004.
The year-on-year difference for the domes...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Bermuda-registered Online graphic design company VistaPrint Inc., may offer up to 10 million shares for between $9 and $11 a share in an initial public offering according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
Existing shareholde...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday fell eight points to 3,631.30 as the Island's largest telecoms company, KeyTech, saw its share price slip by 3.6 percent.
KeyTech investors traded 347 shares while pushing the trading price down ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Hurricane Katrina may help insurance companies raise the premiums they charge clients, and could bring new companies into the disaster area to exploit opportunities for more profit, industry analysts said.
"Property casualty insu...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. estimates that the total industry insured loss for Hurricane Katrina will be between $30 billion and $35 billion.
And it said its share of the claims will be no more than ten percent, or $348 million, of the company's $3....
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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