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Troubled Bermuda insurer Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. yesterday said it had entered into a new credit facility which will be used to support the issuance of letters of credit securing its obligations to pay claims under its remaining reinsurance cont...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. beating earnings estimates by more than a dollar a share as a bet on increasing its catastrophe reinsurance capacity paid off.
RenaissanceRe reported net income of $251.1 million in the third quarter or $3.48 a share compa...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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Bermuda reinsurance stocks fell yesterday after third-quarter results from Axis Capital were lower than expected.
RenaissanceRe Holdings, which beat expectations, also saw its share price fall.
Axis reported net income of $235.4 million and operating...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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LONDON — Stress, sexually transmitted diseases and embarrassing ailments are among the nation’s top health concerns, NHS Direct said yesterday. Of the 20 most frequent topics searched on NHS Direct’s websiteover the past six months, chicken pox is th...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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A single father has admitted causing a four-vehicle smash which led to a motorcyclist being dragged along a road as he clung onto his bike for life.
Jevon Butterfield, 32, of Verdmont Road, Devonshire, led Police on a high-speed chase from Devonshire...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Regular exercise helps obese children shed more than just excess weight. It also reduces the likelihood of heart disease by improving the health of their arteries.“Atherosclerosis - also referred to as hardening of the art...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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Sports Minister Randy Horton will be honoured for outstanding services rendered in football and to the Government of Bermuda during a special award ceremony at Somerset Cricket Club later this month.
Horton heads a short list of individuals who will ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (ENH) said Tuesday that Chief Executive Kenneth J. LeStrange entered a plan to sell up to 185,899 shares of the company’s stock.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, an independent broke...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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A row has broken out between top union officials over civil servants having “serious concerns” about Premier Ewart Brown’s wife’s fundraising.
Ed Ball Jr., General Secretary of the Bermuda Public Services Union, sent a letter to then-Premier Alex Sco...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley agreed to buy Greenwich, Connecticut-based FrontPoint Partners LLC, making its second hedge-fund investment in as many days.Morgan Stanley, the second-largest US securities firm by market value, is paying about $...
DATE: Nov 01, 2006
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