Responding to a rival bid for Bermuda-based property-catastrophe reinsurance specialist IPC Holdings from Validus Holdings yesterday, Max Capital said its lower-priced merger deal would create a company with better diversification.
Less than a month after Max Capital and IPC Re announced their boards approved a merger deal valued at roughly $900 million, Validus Holdings has presented the IPC board with a rival bid valued at $1.68 billion.
While underwriters at Bermuda insurance and reinsurance companies remained focused on their defensive games in fourth-quarter 2008 and early 2009, offensive strategies are being planned, executives
Validus Holding, Ltd. said it expects its insured losses from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav to amount to $185 million, adding that it believes industrywide losses from Ike could be $4 billion higher than
"In a quarter which saw individual risk losses of over $5 billion in the global market and continued turmoil in the credit markets, reporting solid net income of $66.5 million and maintaining a conser
With a second straight year of benign loss activity contributing to a second year of record earnings, Bermuda insurers and reinsurers ranging from established old-timers to relative toddlers face an
An influential lawmaker pushing the nation's insurance commissioners to open up their locked-door executive sessions suggested today that states might seek a cut of the revenue generated by sharing da
Two key state legislators who are demanding that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners end locked-door proceedings managed to get by a security guard last week and secure admittance to
SAN FRANCISCO--Two key state legislators who are demanding that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners end locked-door proceedings managed to get by a security guard yesterday and secure a
The effort to repeal the insurance industry's federal antitrust exemption under the McCarran-Ferguson Act in this congressional session remains "an answer in search of a problem," according to a