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Quanta Capital Holdings Limited said yesterday that it completed the sale of Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC (ESC) to WSP Environmental Holdings, Inc. on September 15. The sale resulted in proceeds of $11.3 million in cash plus forgiveness of...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Concerns about London?s ability to compete with Bermuda have contributed to the exodus of UK company Omega Underwriting Holdings to Bermuda joining peers Catlin and Hiscox.
Omega is the second Lloyd?s of London insurer in a week to announce a move to...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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The recently signed Pension Protection Act of 2006 is composed of almost 1,000 pages of text concerning new pension plan rules and retirement tax breaks. A few more prominent features of the new law follow.
Your company pension plan could be the sour...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index gained remained unchanged yesterday to close yesterday at 4,805.20.
On a quiet of trading on the Exchange, Butterfield Bank was the only issue to see any activity as 1,129 shares changed hands to close u...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Ten of Bermuda’s brightest students planning careers in the insurance industry were presented with $390,000 in scholarships from the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) this year - courtesy of the XL Foundation. Over the last 10 years sin...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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In 1784, the Bermuda Marine Assurance Company issued its first policy to cover a shipment of cargo from Bermuda to Philadelphia. As the trade between Bermuda and North America expanded, British insurance companies were encouraged to appoint and suppo...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Eleven years ago was the first time Nicole DeShields had been admitted to hospital. In labour prematurely she was scared but not alone. She delivered a baby boy and the support she received from the nurses more than heartened her. "They really broade...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Bermudians use more than three times as much water today as they did 40 years ago and consume half a billion gallons more than is collected in their rain tanks annually, the Government?s draft sustainable development plan reveals.
?Charting Our Cours...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Sam Strangeways
As a Bermuda Registered Charity, the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) is solely funded through pledges and donations. These come mainly from insurance companies, but also include those who do business with and for the insurance sector,...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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To provide emotional support is the primary aim of the Alzheimer’s Family Support Group which meets once a month in the activities’ lounge of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“We are a gathering of persons who have lived or cared for someone wi...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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