November 2005/1

Ousted AIG legend in legal tit-for-tat over rights to $20bn stake in former employer... On the 17 October former American International Group (AIG) chief executive, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg launched the latest round in an increasingly acrimonious...

Lloyd’s based broker Fabien Risk Services Ltd has gone into liquidation with debts of over £700,000 and questions over the behaviour of some of its former directors. The company, which was formed in 2001 and...

The pace of growth at medium-sized brokerages on both sides of the Atlantic last year far outstripped that of the industry’s big names. And the trend is likely to accelerate in 2005, with the “Spitzer Effect” expected to play an increasing role.

Crisis-struck (re)insurer breaches banking covenants; details emerge on FSA action... Shares in UK quoted GoshawK collapsed almost 40 percent on 4 November to 5.75p as the company revealed it is no longer able to get access to funds in its Bermudian...

Cat specialists get roughest ride as 3Q losses mount... The pain inflicted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita is clearly reflected in the third quarter reporting of Bermuda’s (re)insurers, a period set to go down in history as the costliest ever quarter...

In our regular monthly International News Digest, we round up key stories from the last month, presenting them to you in easily digestable snippets.

Following Katrina, the received wisdom was that there would be few, if any, Bermudian start-ups. But as the magnitude of the three storm losses begins to sink in (AXIS’s John Charman raised the prospect of up to $80bn of losses in 2005 which, if you...